Word: balkanized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cited special need for bi-linguists who can read any Scandinavian, German, or eastern European--Balkan, Czechoslovakian, etc.--tongues...
...incident alone illustrates Hopkins' enormous influence. On Oct. 3, 1944, Roosevelt had cabled Churchill implying that he (Churchill) could speak for the U.S. on Balkan affairs when he next saw Stalin. F.D.R. had written a cable to Stalin to the same effect; when Hopkins heard about it he ordered the White House map room to stop the Stalin cable. The cable officers obeyed without question. Then Hopkins went to F.D.R.'s bedroom, where the President was shaving, told him what he had done, and persuaded him that the U.S. should always speak for itself. Roosevelt admitted that...
Supper for the Kids. Ana faces a bigger problem than personal morals among Balkan Reds. Many of her Rumanian party colleagues are tainted with the "nationalist" heresy...
What George Polk (see above) and every other Balkan correspondent yearned to do, the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart up & did. He found and interviewed Greek guerrilla General Markos in his Grammos Mountain stronghold. This week, after sitting on it for more than a fortnight (presumably to avoid competing with convention news), the Trib ran his interview as a four-part series. It tingled with some of the cloak-&-dagger thrills of an Eric Ambler novel...
Bigart was warned to employ the strictest konspiratsia, "that favorite Balkan term for secrecy." Next day the stranger brought a guide, a stocky, studious youth named John. He told Bigart to buy a ticket to Rome and get an Italian visa, to make things look legitimate, then...