Word: balkanize
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...chief mourners at murdered King Alexander's funeral last week brought their own soldiers. The soldiers brought plenty of ammunition for their own rifles. It was that kind of a Balkan funeral, grand and grim. Perhaps never until last week had all Europe escorted to his tomb with so much pomp and precaution a monarch only four generations in descent from a swineherd...
...Europe echoed with the pitiful cry of little King Peter: "Why did they do it?" They did it because the various Balkan nationalities that were persuaded to throw in their lot with Serbia after the War feel that they have been bilked of their due. The Kingdom that they thought they were joining, that of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, quickly became Jugoslavia, in which only the voice of Serbia could be heard. Bosnians, Herzegovinians, Slovenes found Serbia a far more brutal master than Austria-Hungary. Any effort to state national aspirations in public brought instant oppression, exile, often torture...
...Papa Doumergue has gone the nation's gratitude for maintaining the Republic against internal discord, to Louis Barthou has gone wide-eyed admiration for spectacularly advancing in a few brief months, the diplomatic position of France. Early this week, as he welcomed to France a Balkan King with whom he was about to make a crucial deal, an assassin shooting at the King brought Death...
...bread & salt. Everyone kissed everyone else. For two days there were parades and banquets, tea parties and reviews, and between times weighty conferences between the two Kings, their Foreign Ministers, interspersed with busy telephone calls to King Carol in Bucharest. No official resumes were given out, but every Balkan correspondent knew what the Kings were talking about...
...King Peter and how he received the news of his father's death, or how the Queen wept over her husband's corpse. It is strange also that, in a country so democratically minded, interest should be concentrated on glorifying the career of a somewhat doubtful Balkan Monarch to the exclusion of any concern at the calamity which has befallen Europe in the death of one of France's greatest foreign ministers. Even your own excellent paper seems hardly to have noticed that a great democratic leader has also died. Surely this must mean more to the immediate future...