Word: balkanize
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...Korff, a prominent Russian liberal and vice-governor of Finland under the Kerensky government; Dr. Panaretoff, Bulgarian minister at Washington and envoy to the League of Nations; and Professor Viallate of Paris. These lectures dealt with such diverse topics as "The World's Economic Reconstruction After the War", "The Balkan Question Today", and "The foreign Politics of Russia in the Past Half-Century". Probably the lecture course that made the deepest impression upon its hearers and formed a real contribution to political thought was Lord Bryce's course, "The Problems of International Peace...
...Together with all these elements went a strong sentimental attachment of a large part of the peasantry to their "god parent", the King who had gained their love in the Balkan wars, increased by the indignant memory of the fact that justly or unjustly this king had been ousted by the help of foreign forces...
...Henry Morgenthau, Ex-American Ambassador to Turkey, promises to be one of the most important discussions of the year. Formerly Vice-Chairman of the Near-East Relief Commission, and director of the Allied relations at Constantinople during the past war, he comes with the most intimate knowledge of the Balkan problems. His topic, "The Near Eastern Question", is one on which he is thus eminently qualified to speak; it is of immediate interest because of the present conflict between Greece and Turkey...
There are grave possibilities of a European crisis, if the factional strife be carried to extremes. One, perhaps all, of the candidates are backed by the Powers that have a special interest in that part of Europe. The Balkan states, in times past, have furnished diplomatic and warlike diversion at the pleasure of a Guiding Hand. Greece may yet do likewise...
...field of History. He has served as President of the first United States Philippine Commission, and, in 1912 and 1913, as our minister to Greece and Montenegro. While in this official capacity, he gathered the first-hand material that he later published in the authoritative book on the Balkan Wars of 1912-13. On his return to this country in 1915, he was elected to the office of first Vice-President of the New York State Constitutional Convention. During the war, in 1917, he again entered public service as a member of the New York State Food Commission...