Word: balkanize
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Premier Venizelos received congratulations upon his return to power, from his good friend and partner in Balkan scheming, Premier Pashitch of Yugo-Slavia. Premier Ismet Pasha of Turkey also proffered his felicitations. Henry Morgenthau, head of the International Loan Commission for the Succor of Greek Refugees, an ex-U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, likewise congratulated M. Venizelos. Speaking at a dinner in Athens, Mr. Morgenthau recalled his efforts to deter the Turks from "massacring Christians;" he deplored the fact that Turkey had been put in the position to win the Anatolian War (1921-22) by the transfer of French...
...questions naturally arise; will Greece become permanently a republic? and if it does, what will the effect be upon the other Balkan states? As to the first, appearances seem to be much in favor of a permanent republic. In view of Greek royalty's record during the past eight years, there is little in its favor except long habit. And habit has not proved a great deterrent in other countries...
...evidences seem to snow, Greece becomes a permanent republic, the effect in the Balkans should prove notable. In the first place it will spoil Queen Marie's imperialistic dream--a dream of a Balkan federation swayed by herself and her children. Moreover, with Greece's example before them other peoples may begin to feel that the Rumanian queen has overreached herself in her ambition. At any rate if Greece continues to revivify at the present rate, the Balkan pot, always near the fire, is likely to be set once more a boiling...
...crux of the situation lay in the question: Is Greece to have a Republican constitution? Advised by Britain, Yugo-Slavia and Rumania not to discard the present dynasty on account of its important connections with the Balkan Powers,* Dictator Colonel Gonatas and his Government tried to quiet down the opposition by abolishing the press censorship, promising the abolition of martial law after the trial of those arrested in a recent revolt, appointing Foreign Minister Apostolos Alexandris as delegate on the Reparations Commission. Republican sentiment, however, refused to be appeased so easily and the clamor for a change...
...Venizelos has always been (outwardly at all events) pro-Monarchist. His quarrel with the late King Constantine was personal, not dynastic. On the bare face of the situation M. Venizelos would be the last Greek statesman to condone any act which might alienate the " affections" of the two great Balkan Powers, in whose boundless political fields he has gamboled, with some effect, for nearly 40 years...