Word: balkanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassador Grew has never minced words in declaring that the continued efficient functioning of the American Hospital is of vital import to the U. S. colonies in Constantinople and in cities of the Balkan and Asiatic hinterlands. Yet the hospital has faced a deficit for the past several years and can scarcely continue functioning through the present twelvemonth if financial aid is not speedily forthcoming from the U. S. Director Dr. Shepard of the Hospital and School has economized and scrimped. The nurses now in training who go out upon graduation to spread U. S. medical methods in Turkey...
Eventually she reached the Riviera, and played white-clad jeune fille to a smugly relieved mother, who basked then for weeks in the compliments the world paid her upon her daughter. Lest Mrs. Trevelyan's serenity be disturbed by the discovery of unaccountable Balkan visas on Loveday's passport, the girl blithely burns it. Just at the wrong time, however, for Loveday hears of Petal's remarriage, and instinctively recognizes that Charles, released from the bondage of maternal adoration, would yield to his Debonair if only she were at hand. How to get to England? A convenient...
Those who profess to believe that the Balkan pot is about to boil over into active warfare were not surprised last week when the Chicago Herald-Examiner (Hearst) printed, exclusively, excerpts from "secret instructions sent from Kemals [Mustapha Kemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey] foreign office to the Turkish minister at Belgrade." This document was "intercepted by a secret agent of one of the Balkan powers." In it, Dictator Kemal outlines his country's moves in the event of a Balkan conflict, as follows...
...Countess Maritza" is about as lucid a reason for incessant warfare in the Balkans as has been discovered in many moons. Any 100 percent Balkan state which sees itself portrayed as the anonymous one in this piece does cannot but go home thoroughly determined to rearrange...
...late Charles M. Hall, inventor of the modern processes for making aluminum, left in his will a very substantial bequest to the trustees of his estate, Mr. Homer H. Johnson '88 and Mr. Arthur V. Davis, to be devoted to educational work in Asia and the Balkan States in such manner and through such agencies as his trustees might think best. The trustees, acting under the discretionary power given them, have devoted a considerable part of Mr. Hall's bequest to the endowment of the Harvard-Yenching Institute of Chinese Studies, with centers in Cambridge and in Peking...