Word: balkanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BALKAN SKETCHES-Lester G. Hornby- Little, Brown...
...exposé5 of the hypocritical process by which the white man shoulders a "burden" of profitable produce which he has made the colonial native extract from soil rightly his. The other U. S. ruminator cited is the Editor of Foreign Affairs.6 He starts with such elementals as that "Balkans" was originally a Turkish word meaning simply "mountains"; and then proceeds to untangle the Balkan post-War skein. His major prophecy is the gradual supplanting of France by Italy as the chief European force in the Balkans. With such heavy fare the reader should take a fluffy, gorgeously illustrated Balkan...
...responsibility of Russia in encouraging the ambitions of Serbia in the years before the War, and in helping her at a critical moment must be judged in the light of her position as the leading Slav power in Europe, and as the champion of the small Balkan States. She had fought for them in 1876 and there was a close feeling of solidarity between the members of the orthodox church. But her decision to draw the sword in 1914 was due less to her sympathy for Serbia than to a desire to restore her prestige; and it was precisely because...
...consort, King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy. Still less has Queen Elena herself been able to exert any real pressure on events in the kingdom of her father. In a word, she is respected but not admired, adored or heeded by Italians. She came, serious-minded, from her dark Balkan mountains, and the grandeur that was or is Rome has not quickened or enlivened her. Had she possessed the taste for pearls, for magnificence, for pageantry of her late mother-in-law (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), the Dowager Queen Margherita, splendor-loving Italians might have enthroned Elena in their fickle hearts...
...with derby hats and cigars; the gold lace and glory is never in the public eye. The little countries must supply that for us--the ones whose names end in aria and aria, where government is a piratical adventure and not a staid, if piratical, affair of business. A Balkan Queen, making a grad progress through the States, probably attracted more notice than would the Queen of England, had she been the guest...