Word: balkanized
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...number of gaps, but their actual agreements were only three: 1) the preamble to the Italian treaty, 2) a revised armistice giving Italy a bit more control over her own affairs-thus merely enraging Italians, who wanted a full-fledged peace treaty, 3) formal shuffling of a few Balkan boundaries informally settled over a year...
Things actually began better than anyone had hoped. In the first five minutes Molotov agreed to let Host Georges Bidault discuss the Finnish and Balkan treaties-the very issue that had broken up the Foreign Ministers' meeting at London last autumn. Next Molotov budged a little from Russia's insistence that Italy pay $300,000,000 in reparations; he helped pick a committee to decide what Italy could pay. In the sessions that followed he made a series of small concessions on the Italian peace treaty...
British experts believe that the U.S. will have the greatest depression ever within five years; just as many U.S. experts believe that Britain will never really recover. Russia is diverting the flow of Balkan trade from its normal markets to Moscow. Australia has a brand-new war-born industry that needs "protection" to survive renewed competition. Autarchy has other forms than the one it took under the Nazis...
Last summer, after a five-year wartime lapse, Theodore Andrica went overseas in a war correspondent's uniform. It was his ninth trip, and this time he penetrated deeper into the Balkan byways than any U.S. correspondent since...
...host of characters whose stumbling, often shady, approach to life neatly matches Austria's equally stumbling and shady progress into war. Twilight on the Danube glimmers romantically with bluebearded armament manufacturers, handsome intelligence officers, youthful idealists, and tea-party gargle about actresses and the disturbed condition of Balkan affairs. By the time the fatal shot has been fired at Sarajevo, Publisher Reither has found and lost his last and greatest love, and his entire family have fallen victims to their own dreams and to the Empire's infectious blend of sloppiness and pride. The setting is mostly Prague...