Word: balkanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charged that Bulgaria is an armed menace to her neighbors. This was hotly resented by the Bulgarian Foreign Office, which, having discoursed about the country's good intentions and the amount of war material which it was forced to hand over to the Allied authorities, computed the strength of Balkan armaments as follows...
...Ismid Peninsula, covering Constantinople, were faced by a threatening concentration of victorious Turkish troops. Lloyd George, genius of the Greek policy in Asia Minor and bitterest foe of the Turk in Europe, called on the Dominions to rally to the defense of the Straits and on the Balkan Nations to join in an anti-Turk crusade. The British public decided that this attitude meant war, and Lloyd George was ousted bag and baggage to let "the only party that understands foreign affairs," the Conservatives, led by Curzon in the Foreign Office, make peace...
...Queen's matchmaking plans received a brutal blow. Rumanian policies looking to an entente with Italy, a concordat with the Vatican, not to mention the marriage of Marie's second son to an Italian Princess, were roughly handled by Mussolini's masterful touch. All the Balkan chancellories are in turmoil...
...object of the move was said to be that the Croatians intend to go to Belgrade (the capital), join the Opposition there, oust Premier Pashitch, demand new elections, revise Balkan policy, "kill" the Italo-Yugo-Slavian treaty over Fiume (TIME...
...expected to overthrow the Monarchy, but he opposed the people and advocated a revision of the Constitution. He worked in harmony with King George I in reorganizing public instruction, justice, police, finance, etc. His part in Balkan scheming is by now part of history. Judged ethically it may not be to his credit, but from results his actions were certainly justified; for in the two Balkan Wars he doubled the territory of Greece. After King George was succeeded by his son Constantine, Venizelos' power dwindled, because he found himself in direct opposition to the pro-German royal policies...