Word: balkanized
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Through the mind of the man who lay dying in Mexico may have passed visions of stirring revolutionary days: the abortive Russian revolution of 1905, which got him exiled to Siberia again; his escape to Vienna, where he wrote for Pravda; Balkan war correspondence from Constantinople in 1913; more plotting in Zurich and Paris; expulsion from France in 1916; Spain and ten weeks in the U. S., where he played in My Official Wife with Clara Kimball Young, worked as a waiter in a restaurant on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, edited a Bronx newspaper; his return to Russia after...
Last week Balcic was part of the 3,000 square miles of southern Dobruja claimed by Bulgaria and ceded to her, in all but final title, by Rumania (see map). The area was taken by Rumania in 1913 after Bulgaria was beaten in Balkan War II. It is a land of dry hills and windswept steppes, remarkably fertile considering its poor watering. Its population, according to Rumanian claims, is 77,000 Rumanians, 143,000 Bulgarians and 129,000 Turks...
First step in the partitioning came in June, when Russia moved into Bessarabia and northern Bucovina. Three weeks ago Adolf Hitler summoned a Balkan conference at Salzburg at which it was made clear that the Axis, tolerating no disturbance in the Balkans, would support the claims of Hungary and Bulgaria against Rumania. It seemed to be agreed that the smaller operation, amputation of southern Dobruja, would be accomplished first...
More than a narrow strip of Transylvania was already out of Rumanian hands when sorely beset King Carol II acceded to the suggestion of roly-poly Colonel Gerstenberg, Hitler's capable and very persuasive Balkan bagman, and gave the 740,000 Germans in Transylvania the right to arm, immunity from joining the new Rumanian Party of The Nation and freedom from Army requisitioning...
With Germany determined to settle the simmering Balkans, the Russian angle last week seemed to be to get them to boil over. Into circulation went rumors of a Russian-proposed three-nation block of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Rumania. Also rumored was a Russian note suggesting the desirability of a "popular Government" in Rumania. Fortnight ago the Moscow radio stopped criticizing Rumania, began defending her title to Transylvania. And last week Soviet agents began distributing propaganda tracts, appealing to all Balkan workers to follow the example of the proletarians in the three Baltic States and "liberate themselves" by joining...