Word: balkanize
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...state Czeckoslovakia got the whole of Upper Hungary with more than one million Hungarians. To the newly reorganized Balkan kingdom Jugoslavia was delivered the south part of old Hungary, with Hungary's sole sea-shore and the harbor of Fiume, with about 600,000 Hungarians. And finally, Austria, Hungary's erstwhile spouse with whom she lived during the four hundred years of a very unhappy international marriage, got a bit of old Hungary with about 65,000 Hungarians. Nevertheless as is well known, because the United States Senate refused to ratify the so called Treaty of Trianon, the United States...
...minorities question, of which the acute phase developed from the growing national consciousness of the nineteenth century. Effects had been made to meet the problem prior to 1918, and in several of the peace treaties of the past century, notably in those which established the independence of several Balkan states, provision had been made for the fair treatment of these minorities. The difficulties in the way of a satisfactory settlement were, however, great...
...Belgrade, last week. Frenchmen were overjoyed, Germans vexed and Italians furious. Said London's famed Spectator: "The severity of the dictatorship is startling. It is a disagreeable spectacle to see a nation abandon parliamentarianism and rush into autocracy." In Paris, where King Alexander is regarded as the chief Balkan ally of France, virtually the whole press praised the new Dictatorship. The German Monarchist Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung approved "this fresh proof of the futility of parliamentarianism"; but the Socialist Vorwaerts sneered savagely at "the Surgeon-King who seeks to cure his sick state by plunging in the bayonet." Perhaps...
Abysmally ignorant U. S. news organs told that the train wrecked was the Simplon-Orient Express. The distinction, nice, between the Orient and the Simplon-Orient is that although both run Balkan-ward from Paris through the Swiss Simplon Tunnel, the Orient later branches off to Bucharest, and the Simplon-Orient to Constantinople...
Avala reported Stefan Raditch to have provoked Government Deputies by shouting at them: "You are not men! YOU ARE SWINE!" That his remark does not constitute provocation for murder, among Jugoslavs, was indicated by TIME's comment that, " 'swine' is almost the favorite epithet bandied in Balkan parliaments...