Word: balkanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often ill advised statement, that it is, after all, powerless to do any real good, will do well to remark the present success of the League in silencing the war threats and rifles of the Greeks and Bulgars. In the days before the League was thought of, the Balkan states were always the sore spot of Europe. Not only delighting in the tinsel of melodrama, they liked a bit of the shooting and sword play which goes with the tinsel. So every few months a new trouble would arise. And the great states would grin and use these tiny strifes...
...latest reports emanating from the Near East are to be believed, another periodic Balkan crisis is at hand. Jugo-Slavia buzzes with rumors of an Albanian invasion, and fighting, which had broken out along the Salonikan frontier between Greek and Bulgarian troops, has just been halted by a truce Now Greece has sent a twenty-four hour ultimatum to her aggressive neighbor demanding reparations...
Apparently, the cry of wolf has been raised too often, however. Europe is more intent upon carrying out the terms of the Locarno treaties than in mixing up in the latest Balkan row, and the American press pursues the even tenor of its ways. Nowadays murders, assassinations and ultimate flying back and forth among the hot tempered members of the Balkan family remind one more of a mock-heroic farce or a travesty on the art of war, than a serious disturbance...
Graustark - Norma Talmadge should make more pictures. She is not only excellent herself; she seems to have a knack of picking stories. George W. McCutcheon's old romance of the fancied Balkan principality comes gorgeously to life in pictures. It is well played, it is exciting. It is, therefore, an unusual film, not to be missed...
...King Georgos' sisters was the Crown Princess of Rumania, the King's wife was a daughter of the King and Queen of Rumania and one of the King's brothers-in-law was the King of Yugo-Slavia. Queen Marie of Rumania had cleverly set the stage for strong Balkan alliance. It was natural, after the republican "doings" in Greece, that the friendship of Yugo-Slavia and Greece cooled and the Balkan alliance received a severe set-back...