Word: balkanize
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From Sofia came rumors of a general Balkan moratorium. Premier N. Muchanoff of Bulgaria blurted out that his country must default on its debts if it did not receive more money from the League of Nations (Bulgaria owes the U. S. some $27,000,000). Greece had already made such an announcement. Two days later Premier Muchanoff thought better, denied that he had "said anything concrete on the subject." Harried Albania set up not one but five separate commissions to think of ways of raising more money. Rumania's Finance Minister, Constantine Argetoianu, was in Paris, begging. Spectacled King...
...International Peace, in New York, was born in Canada, and was educated at St. Andrews College, Toronto, and at Loyola University. During the war Douglas held the rank of Major in His Majesty's forces, and following the war, devoted seven years to the study of Mediterranean and Balkan problems; Douglas has resided or travelled in Morocco, Egypt, Rhodes, Patmos, Athens, and Helgrade...
Texas and Oklahoma are not independent Balkan powers. If they were, they would have been at war last week, with a frontier bridge across the sluggish Red River as causa belli. As it was, Oklahoma's bewhiskered Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray† declared martial law and called out guardsmen on his side of the river. Half a mile away on the other side, Texas' corpulent Governor Ross Shaw Sterling posted a detachment of his Rangers for military duty. The real fighting, however, was done in the columns of the Press...
Soon, all three professors began questioning Candidate Raditch. (They had of course already read his 450 pages.) Sternly at last Professor Seignobos spoke: "In your very interesting thesis, M. Raditch, you have forgotten one very important point, and that is that in the Balkans political murders are looked upon as current means to political ends. Balkan opinion regarding such murders differs entirely from American or European opinion. Nevertheless, the commission unanimously accepts your thesis and awards you your degree...
With General Cohen there also deserted to the new Canton Government last week Ace Bert Hall of Bowling Green, Ky. In 1913 Aviator Hall and his mechanic were Turkey's two-man air force in the Balkan War. When the World War broke Aviator Hall was in Paris, joined the Foreign Legion, left it later to help found the famed Lafayette Escadrille. He shot down nine German planes, was decorated seven times by Allied Governments. Aged 50 he is still spoiling for fights, picks plenty in China, where he is "General Chan...