Word: balkanized
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...happened to be the 27th anniversary of the Versailles Treaty and the 32nd anniversary of Archduke Ferdinand's assassination at Sarajevo), had arrived. Besides Trieste, other issues remained unsolved: free navigation on the Danube, Russia's insistence on Italian reparations, the economic clauses in the Balkan treaties and, last but not least, the "German question...
...second time, the Government regretfully refused (and Dimitroff was promptly summoned to Moscow). On other issues, Sofia has been more obedient; it has dropped its old territorial claims against Comrade Tito's Yugoslavia (for Mother Russia wants a united satellite family), has instead joined the general Balkan campaign for hunks of Greek territory...
...Rumania, Premier Peter Groza postponed elections until fall (by then he hopes to have liquidated the opposition). Despite vigorous U.S. protest, Reuben H. Markham, the Christian Science Monitor's veteran Balkan correspondent, was expelled last week for "misrepresenting the situation in Rumania and spreading provocative rumors prejudicial to the cause of unity among the great powers." Markham reluctantly crossed into Greece, retaliated by bitterly telling of concentration camps, political murders, meetings broken up by Red Army troops and Communists. Said he: "The worst that any tyrant ever did in the way of violence . . . is now being matched...
Died. James Henry ("Jimmy") Hare. 89, veteran news photographer of the flash-powder era who took the first aerial picture of Manhattan, made closeups of five wars (Spanish-American, Russo-Japanese, Balkan, Haiti-Dominican Republic, World War I); in Teaneck...
They did not know much about Balkan politics, but they were sure that Mihailovich was a right guy, and they said so in hundreds of protest letters. Last week some of them turned up at the New York County Lawyers' Association in Manhattan's Vesey Street to testify before the Committee for a Fair Trial for Mihailovich. Excerpts...