Word: balkanize
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...quitting England to cruise Balkan waters on the chartered $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin last week. His Majesty resorted not only to the usual incognito of going as "the Duke of Lancaster" but to unusual secrecy. His subjects had understood that he would leave from his royal airdrome at Windsor Great Park, gathered there in genial numbers to wish him Godspeed. Instead the King motored to a nearby private airdrome and forbade his staff to divulge the names of any of the five people who flew away with him in his royal plane, piloted by modest Edward ("Mouse") Fielden, Captain...
...chartered royal yacht Nahlin left England for the Adriatic last week with her master Captain Doyle instructed that only after sailing would he be told by the Admiralty House radio from Whitehall in what Balkan port to pick up Edward VIII...
...prow of the Nahlin is an Indian totem pole base from which sprouts as a figurehead an Indian chief with.flowing headdress, peering ahead. On final orders from the Admiralty, the Nahlin nosed this week into the minute Balkan port of Sibenik, between Zara and Split, there picked up King Edward & Friends...
...Britain's claim to "belligerent rights" to send a full fleet into the Black Sea in case of war with a Black Sea power, (i.e., Russia) had to be chopped because of Balkan outcries (TIME, July...
...which will mostly operate in Germany's favor. Not indeed since Athenians mulcted Sam Insull had they done such a thorough job. Much credit for the German success went to Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, who has just made a flying Balkan tour, booking orders for munitions against blocked marks (TIME, June...