Word: balkanize
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...first French Cabinet Minister ever to visit Poland. To do him honor Dictator Pilsudski last April canceled a pleasure trip to Egypt. Amid tremendous acclaim he was feted by Czechoslovakia at Prague, exchanged literary reminiscences with President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk. But for Louis Barthou the most fun was his Balkan tour...
Boske Jeftitch is Foreign Minister of Jugoslavia. Even a year ago his presence in Bulgaria would have caused riots, for Jugoslavia is part of the French-inspired Little Entente. But things have changed in a twelvemonth. Spurred on by the menace of Hitlerism and the threat to the Balkan "succession states"* of a possible Habsburg restoration in Austria and Hungary, Boske Jeftitch has trotted up & down the Balkan corridor trying to organ ize a separate Jugoslav-Turkish-Bulgarian entente. The advantages of such an alliance to impoverished Bulgaria were obvious, but there was just one point on which Foreign Minister...
...present action is, of course, directly the outcome of the recent history of Bulgaria. With the close of the war, Bulgaria, who had joined the Central Powers, received the terms of her punishment in the Treaty of Neuilly. Since she had lost much in the settlements closing the Balkan Wars, there was not much that could be lost territorially. Possibly the severest blow was the loss of her Aegean coast-line, with economic as well as political consequences. Never a wealthy state at any time, by the war and the peace treaty, Bulgaria was reduced in power, population, area...
...economic, however the headlines describe them. And to that knowledge he has added that the European situation in 1934 shows a fantastic similarity with that of 1914, with a complete renaissance of what Mr. Stoddard calls "Europe's ancient feuds." The only difference are some new components in the Balkan alliances and a strong and enigmatical Italy. He cannily observed the Orient, too, including America's suckers-game in China, and predicts America's participation, willy-nilly, in either a protracted naval war on the Atlantic or the Pacific. He cites President Roosevelt's palpable navalism, as creating the sort...
...decline of French dominance over Europe. The defection of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Austria has really broken up an alignment which was the main bulwark of her "security." With the more or less open and certainly rapid rearming of Germany, and the upstart manoevering of Mussolini--which produced the Balkan pact--France finds herself in an unobtrusive backseat. The League has gone, the Treaty with it, Germany is on the road back, (with an obvious goal,) and internally France is weakened by uncertainly--the stage could not better be set for a fascist coup d'etat, the unification of the State...