Word: balkanize
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...marbles were restored to the Parthenon and the Parthenon to Greece who knows how long they would stay together? Even a Greek will admit that things haven't been what they should be on the Balkan Peninsula during the past century. Evidently they have not thought of sending the remaining fragments of the Parthenon to England and setting them up beside the marbles in the British Museum...
Meanwhile from Tirana. Albanian capital, comes news of the "villain" of this latest Balkan drama. Ahmed Zogu, inveterate rival of Bishop Noli, is now in full control of the government. The constituent assembly has declared Albania a republic, with a constitution modeled after that of the United States, and has named Zogu as president for a term of seven years...
Adolf A. Joffe, one of the greatest exponents of Bolshevik diplomacy, now Russian Minister to Austria, waxed contemptuous of a reported anti-Bolshevik league in the Balkans, hinted at war. warned against verbal sabre-rattlings: "Naturally, this Balkan shouting about the Bolshevist danger arouses great bitterness among the people of the Soviet Union and enhances the difficulties of reaching an understanding between the Soviet Government and the Balkan States...
...English Conservative Government is agitating against the Soviet Government whenever it can. England has succeeded in uniting the Governments of Rumania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia into a Balkan union against Bolshevism. A few months ago these countries were deadly enemies; today they are close friends. This is England's work...
...country is nonexistent, the people are not. They have managed, directly or indirectly, to make more Balkan blood flow in the past 20 years than have any other people. Since the War, their activities have shown no sign of abating. Greece and Yugoslavia and Bulgaria have been much troubled by them...