Word: balkanize
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...Yugo-Slavian elections demand a closer inspection than the mere tabulation of results. This is the first Parliament to be elected in the new State of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes since the elections for the provisional Constituent Assembly in November, 1920, and is therefore of some importance in Balkan politics...
JAZZ MANIA-There is a queen, a Balkan country of the type that figures very prominently on the map of Hollywood and not so much so anywhere else, a newspaper reporter who is a go-getter to the extent of going and getting the queen. She (the queen), is full of fun. She likes dancing considerably better than governing, and the heroic copy-hound less than either. Elements involved are tabloid revolutions, aeroplane fights, a New York cabaret, and continuous dancing, with or without provocation. The queen being Mae Murray, that is all very predictable and completely satisfying. BRASS-Philip...
...only this, but the continued occupation of the Ruhr by France will in all probability precipitate trouble throughout the Balkans and eastern Europe, and will culminate with an army of France on top of the Balkan states. I say this with the full realization that I lay myself open to criticism as pro-German. I am not, I am pro-French, and for that reason I am urging this policy of withdrawing French troops from the Ruhr. The American people should push aside all sentimentality, and face the real facts. There is no question about the devastation and sacrifice...
...free in all the territories in which they are a majority; Let Armenia, Ionia and Thrace be emancipated from the bonds of slavery to the Turks; Put an end to the sufferings of the Christian and other minorities of the Near East; Avert the dangers of a new Balkan war and consequent danger of a new world conflagration; Let the way to Constantinople and through the Straits remain free for commerce; Let the American philanthropic and civilizing agencies, and American enterprises be given free scope...
...Balkan brigands are improving on the methods of the innkeepers of Oberammergan, shopkeepers of Berlin and Dresden, and restaurant keepers of Paris in the business of quick and complete annexation of American bankrolls which come within their reach. A cablegram tolls of the holdup and robbery of a party of Illinois tourists at a lonely spot in the Balkans...