Word: balkanize
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...artificial language they hoped to spread was invented by a patient Polish physician, Lazaro Ludovico Zamenhof, who published his work in 1887. His language looks like a Balkan patter, sounds like a Romance patois. Though it runs on rules like rails, it lends itself to precise shades of meaning. In 1921, as a test, the Paris Chamber of Commerce had two Esperantists translate delicate texts of French into Esperanto, then had two others turn them back into French; the final texts were almost identical with the originals. The language has only 16 simple rules of grammar, to which there...
Smart, thrifty little Tsar Boris made his first effective move toward undermining the Treaty of Neuilly in 1930 when he married a daughter of the King of Italy, gaining Bulgaria a friend among the powers which won the War. In later years, the Balkan Entente formed by Turkey, Rumania, Greece and Yugoslavia -the last two on markedly friendly terms with Italy-gradually warmed up to friendship with Bulgaria. In part, this was because Tsar Boris, with...
...Duce has rapidly rearmed Bulgaria, ignoring the Treaty of Neuilly-and she is now strong enough for the Balkan Entente to value her as a friend...
...final move came with lightning suddenness last week. Greek Premier John Metaxas, having just crushed a revolt (see col. 1), sped to Salonika for a secret rendezvous with Bulgarian Premier George Kiosseivanov. General Metaxas, as this year's president of the Balkan Entente, signed on behalf of all its members a treaty canceling the arms limitations imposed upon Bulgaria at Neuilly. In signing the new pact, the premiers also made a mutual non-aggression agreement among the five States concerned. It was considered certain that this foreshadowed the early entrance of Bulgaria into the Balkan Entente...
...that Bulgaria has openly rearmed, the realm of Tsar Boris too may expect to benefit from the "loans" which Britain and France are so lavishly making to assure that the Balkan States will stand with Democracy (TIME, July 25). Paris dispatches this week announced that a consortium of French banks are "studying" the question of lending Bulgaria three hundred million francs...