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British-born Monica Dehn, now 35, studied journalism at London University and worked in the British Broadcasting Corp.'s Balkan department before she went out to Jerusalem for a wartime assignment with a Foreign Office radio station beamed at the Balkans. When the British mandate ended in Israel, she stayed on because of her "terrific curiosity about the new state...
...only 128 after Sultan Abdul Hamid II issued a decree barring Moslem Turks from foreign schools. The 1890s brought another cholera epidemic. Then the country had an earthquake, and Turkey went to war with Greece. As the college was just recovering, the Young Turks revolted. Then came the Balkan Wars, World War I, the Kemal Ataturk revolution of the '20s, and the Great Depression. By 1944, when Ballantine's able predecessor, Floyd Black, took over, the college was $500,000 in debt. Only by the most stringent economies-"prowling about the halls," recalls one professor, "turning off lights...
...continents and enthroned Elinor Glyn as the sultriest literary siren of the pre-Kinsey age. Even more famous, of course, was Three Weeks, a swoonmaking elixir that Elinor uncorked in 1907. Three Weeks, written in six, eventually sold some 5,000,000 copies, and featured a wildly romantic Balkan queen who greeted her lover from a reclining position on a tiger skin with a red rose between her teeth. The book was boycotted in Boston, blasted from pulpits, and celebrated in an anonymous ditty...
...terminate the international activities of the Communist Party. A second proof of Russian sincerity would be the reunification of Germany as a sovereign democratic state-neither "neutralized" nor satellite. A third proof would properly be the honoring of Soviet commitments, taken at Yalta, to permit self-determination in the Balkan states and Poland, and emancipate those unhappy slave states. If Russia satisfied these three preconditions, said Dulles, then the West would ease its pressure...
...renegade: never before had Headman Khrushchev traveled beyond the border of Kremlin-styled Communism. Tito was probably too cagey to put his head all the way into the bear's mouth. But at the very least, he seemed to be very busy at the old Balkan game of playing off major powers, in hope of picking up an extra concession or two from both sides...