Word: balkanized
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Last week snow clogged Balkan mountain passes and the skies over Britain were stormy. But over the coast of Europe the R. A. F. pounded the invasion ports as it never had before (see p. 30), and in Africa British arms put Italy to a historic disgrace. The tempo of diplomacy also quickened. Europe's statesmen played long-range power politics to pitch newer battlefronts on grounds of their own choosing...
...Balkan front Adolf Hitler gave a neat illustration of his Mephistophelean trick of making politicians so indebted to him for their power that he can count on their absolute loyalty. Bulgaria's Minister of Agriculture Ivan Bagrianoff was, until last week, in a very strong position. He was popular with the peasants, who form 82% of Bulgaria's population. He was popular with King Boris, who last year dismissed a Premier, George Kiosseivanoff, at Bagrianoff's request. And he was popular with Hitler, whose outstanding protagonist in Bulgaria he was. Last week, most probably at Hitler...
Winston Churchill would like him to try either one right now, and said so in another of his eloquent interim reports last week (see p. 15, p. 30). A Balkan diversion would create a further respite for the British Isles. With an African army beating its chest, Britain has the troops for a fight. And it looked very much as if Winston Churchill were trying to pick a fight. After warning Bulgaria that military objectives would be bombed "distastefully" if German troops entered that country, he declared that German troops were already there...
...downs than a scenic railway. At the Potsdam Military Academy (Germany's West Point), where he wore high heels to increase his height, his brilliance in solving strategy problems earned him the nickname "Little Moltke." From school he plunged into that prelude of World War I, the Balkan War. When war exploded throughout Europe two years later, he supported the pro-German faction in Greece so vehemently that when Greece finally chose her side, he was escorted aboard a seedy freighter and carried to Corsica as prisoner of the French...
...Affairs, Minister of War, Minister of Marine, Air Minister, Minister of Education. In 1938 he proclaimed himself "Premier for life." But unlike the Axis dictators, he fomented no wars, rarely made speeches, indulged in no pageantry, maintained no sycophants to shout his praises. He sought friendship with all his Balkan neighbors and cemented a cordial entente with Greece's traditional enemy, Turkey. He was a hardheaded, hardworking, unpretentious administrator in shell-rimmed spectacles who rested his claim to authority on the fact that he got things done...