Word: balkanized
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...policy of catering to the uninitiate has, in the running of a commercial oddity, a Greek owned restaurant which actually serves Greek food, paid decided dividends for the Athens-Olympia and its owner, John Cocoris. Greek cooking needs to be explained. Yaourti, for example, a Balkan food staple, is made by boiling ordinary milk, then cooling it, and running it through a strainer. It comes out thick, and white, and very sour; and some people who are not from the Balkans have trouble stomaching it. Baklava, a doughy kind of pastry, makes its appearance in layered squares covered with syrup...
...fire" where Greece is concerned, and with pressure being applied at home and abroad would probably thankfully withdraw all her troops and services but for the threat of an ever-expanding Russia in this last stronghold of Western culture and Western-type democracy ... in the Balkan nations...
Professor Dow, who worked with Greek Intelligence during the war, criticized arguments that the entire Balkan issue be turned over to the United Nations. Saddled with a problem too great for it to handle, that organization might be destroyed while still in its infancy. He cited recent Soviet use of the veto in the Albanian case as proof of U.N. weakness. Predicting that the death of Premier Stalin might result in the rise to power of a "Hitler-like" Russian, Professor Dow opined that unlike pre-war Germany, the Soviet Union is unable to wage an effective aggressive...
...including the historian, are a part of history. Europe's Iron Age, closing over Toynbee while he was studying at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, taught him that history is also the present. It was the eve of the Balkan wars. In dingy Greek cafes, Toynbee heard something he had never heard at Balliol-discussion of the foreign policy of Sir Edward Grey...
...interference" in Balkan elections must cease...