Word: balkanized
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...insulted by Bulgarian officials. They demanded his recall. When Washington protested, it got only smiling evasions from Bulgarian Chargé d'Affaires Peter Voutov in Washington, sullen silence from Sofia. Last week, his patience exhausted, Secretary of State Dean Acheson broke off diplomatic relations with Russia's Balkan satellite (which was a Nazi satellite before that...
...remarkably good humor during the conferences. When the Russian armies were on the offensive at Stalingrad, he told the reporters: "You can say [I am] dee-lighted, if you want to." And when they questioned him on U.S. dealings with the dubious Admiral Darlan, he retorted with "an old Balkan proverb": "My children, you are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the Devil until you have crossed the bridge...
...course without quarreling with the Turks, who are good, sweet fellows." Fiery, mustached Emperor Michael is vague about most of his program, but specific on one point: if elected, he wants a carved walnut throne. When he heard that part of the job of the U.N.'s Balkan Committee was to help Greeks, Michael got right in with his own request: ten cars, two typewriters, two radios, loudspeakers and money. In the meantime, he has been stopping Salonika traffic, campaigning from a table...
...China is no Balkan peanut; it has a population almost twice as great as that of Russia itself. 2) It is an Oriental culture, whereas the Sovict Union has become steadily Westernized. 3) There is a great deal of rugged territory between Moscow and Peking, and remote control does not work very well when it is that remote. 4) The Chinese liberated themselves in the last war; there was no Russian Army to parade in the streets and insure "free" elections...
...calls the faithful to prayer, but in place of flowing robes, he wears a Western business suit. Near the waterfront, hollow-eyed children stare from the windows of tottering wooden tenements. In the dimly lighted bar of the sleek Park Hotel, Turkish intelligence agents mingle with American engineers and Balkan refugees, drinking the latest Yankee concoction of vodka and orange juice, called a "screwdriver...