Word: balkanized
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...Hudson sailed up the great river that bears his name, at least 18 languages were represented in New York's babel of tongues. In the mid-1800s, more than 1,000,000 Irish, driven by famine, poured into New York, along with endless waves of Italian, German and Balkan refugees spilling out of revolution-torn Europe. In 1885 the Statue of Liberty was going up on Bedloe's Island, with its message of compassion and hope to the tired, the poor, the huddled masses. Among those to land in New York that year was Robert Ferdinand Wagner...
...said, "that Greece has worked up this whole tremendous agitation simply to be able to annex an island 40 miles from Turkey and 600 or 700 miles from her own mainland. In doing so the Greek government has not hesitated to imperil the future of NATO, of the Balkan Pact [Greece, Turkey, Yugoslavia] and of its own good relations with Britain and Turkey...
...boldness of his policies electrified the country. It was Menderes who took the decision to send Turkish troops to the Korean war. He joined the Balkan Pact and helped fashion the Baghdad Pact. He was among the firmest and most useful of U.S. allies in the Mediterranean...
Perhaps the sweetest of Old Balkan Hand Tito's satisfactions was the vengeance he was taking on the men who had spoken loudest in denunciation of him during his 1948 quarrel with Stalin. Satellite leaders who once denounced him have been shoved aside, or tremble in their jobs. Men who went to their deaths accused of trafficking with him have had their reputations posthumously "rehabilitated." The Cominform which expelled him has been dissolved. Molotov has resigned. All these things, Tito indicated, make for a good start, but he still" has some names on his list. He has a score...
More than once Alexander Papagos had rescued his country from political dissension. A ramrod-backed cavalry officer, he was educated at a Belgian military academy and first served his King and country in the Balkan War, curtain raiser to World War I. A royalist to the tip of his long, aristocratic nose, he went into exile in 1918 after King Constantine was deposed, but a couple of years later came back as a staff officer. After taking part in the campaign against Turkey, he was bounced from the army for joining a plot to restore the monarchy under George...