Word: balkanize
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...strongly, drifts to an unconvincing conclusion, Cradle of Life belongs in the ran!: of those books that are interesting for the facts they give on unfamiliar environments, but are made tedious by hackneyed and romantic plots. Louis Adamic's interesting facts include descriptions of the perils faced by Balkan bastards. In pre-War Croatia these waifs, called fachooks, were commonly placed in peasant homes in wild regions. As long as funds were regularly provided for their upkeep they were kept alive, but if the money ran out they were done away with by any of several traditional means-they...
Simultaneously leading London papers announced that they were printing last week no pictures of the King and an absolute minimum of text about his Balkan pleasure cruise. It had become all but impossible to get a fresh picture of Edward VIII which was not a picture of the King & Mrs. Simpson. At a moment when His Majesty was in fact making Balkan policemen, who seized press cameras, give these back to their owners (TIME, Aug. 31), the London Sunday Dispatch declared that it was not printing any such pictures and would also print no stories from the royal yachting cruise...
...fashioned Prime Minister was speaking strongly to the King about his projected modern holiday with Mrs. Simpson when His Majesty cut the conversation, saying with sarcasm: "Look here, if you don't stop it, Baldwin, I won't attend your beastly old Coronation." The King on his Balkan holiday last week went about with Mrs. Simpson and his other guests taking pictures with a small German camera. Once when a police-man seized a camera from a press photographer who was snapping King Edward, His Majesty intervened. Taking the camera away from the policeman, Edward VIII handed...
...Minister Alfred Duff Cooper, who was aboard the chartered royal yacht Nahlin, kept vainly radioing ashore that the King was traveling incognito as the Duke of Lancaster. Nevertheless, the next Balkan fortress passed would blaze away a 21-gun royal salute. The Duke of Lancaster delighted during the week to slip off the Nahlin with Mrs. Simpson, she in the stern and he at the oars of a skiff...
Astonished Balkan natives beheld last week the spectacle of a great white yacht from which small white objects flew, each with a sharp ping as it left the deck and a plop as it was lost in the Adriatic. Each ping-plop cost about 15 dinars, the peasants learned, and in the rural Balkans that is enough to buy a needed shirt or a night's drunken carouse (35?). They had always heard that "the English Milords are all rich" and they could well believe it last week, watching King Edward & Friends drive off his chartered...