Word: balkanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That volcano of unrest in European politics, the Mediterranean district, has recently displayed unmistakable signs of increasing activity. To the three great Western countries, England, France, and Italy, who hold large stakes in the lands surrounding this inland sea, have been added the two Balkan states, Roumania and Jugo Slavia, who emerged into the Class B Power class after the World War and to a certain extent replaced in the politics of the Near East dismembered Austria and red Russia...
...frontiers of empires further around the Southeastern shores of the Mediterranean. Italy, intent on the Trentino and Trieste in 1919, received little in addition to disappointing Tripoli except the control of Fuime on the Adriatic. Furthermore the appearance of Roumania and Jugo-Slavia as something more than the petty Balkan princedoms of Moldavia--Wallachia and Serbia gave her rivals more serious in many ways than Austria-Hungary had been. So the Peace of Versailles brought no peace to the Near East. Italy's interests traditionally demand her further expansion in the Adriatic and the Mediterranean; England and France with...
These mountaineers?his feudal retainers?are the true and only stable support of his power. At 16, he succeeded to his late father's duties as Chief; and since the second Balkan War he has gradually assumed an increasingly dominant national position, winning other tribal clans to his support with tact and skill. During the two years of his presidency there have been built 300 bridges and almost 1,000 kilometres of roads?a desperate necessity if Albanian commerce is ever to develop...
...with Mexico as strained to the point of war. Another leads its front page with a story picturing the armed menace of the new Germany. Others discussed the rumblings of war that have thundered out of China ever since the Nanking incident. Every paper carried a story on the Balkan situation. In four different places does war impend...
...called the kettle black, and the kettle had white-washed itself and called back reproaches at the pot. War tingled iri the Balkan...