Word: balkanizing
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LAKE SUCCESS, July 24--Hopes for a compromise solution of the Balkan problem faded today when Russia turned down French proposals intended to "soften" the American plan for a powerful semi-permanent commission in the Halkans...
...Soviet attitude was disclosed after the delegates had left unresolved a new difficulty raised by a French proposal that the big five powers be excluded from the proposed Balkan commission...
Meanwhile the council received an interim report from the subsidiary group of the Balkan investigating commission on recent developments along Greece's northern border. The report was restricted to a summary of testimony taken in its on-the-spot investigation of Greek charges that an international brigade had entered Greece from Albania...
Russia made the headlines again last night, as she (1) signed a trade agreement with Hungary, (2) called the United States plan for settling Balkan border disorders "unacceptable," and (3) was characterized by Commerce Department spokesmen as cutting herself and her satellite nations behind the "iron curtain" off from U.S. steel supplies...
...doctor's home in a small Vermont town, and within twelve months was spouting like a native. Then he became a hotel waiter and moved successively through Boston, New York, Denver, Los Angels, and San Francisco. In 1914, after two years spent back in Greece fighting in the First Balkan War he made up his mind that the time for youthful flings was over and that destiny was calling. he got a job as a waiter in a Boston hotel. Within thirteen months he saved sixteen hundred dollars and made two acquaintances who were to prove extremely useful...