Word: balkanizing
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...George Macaulay Trevelyan, speaking in the Union last night, gave a brilliant description of present social and political conditions in the Balkan peninsula. Coming almost directly from Servia, where he has travelled and studied conditions during the past few months, Mr. Trevelyan told of the terrible epidemic of typhus fever which is now raging there, and of the courageous work which is being done to combat it by British and American doctors and nurses...
...fact that racial and political boundaries differ widely is one of the great causes of disturbance in the Balkan countries and their neighbors today. This distortion of boundaries is due to historical causes. Since Austria drove the Turks from Hungary, she has continually attempted to check the southern Slav, grasping territory whenever possible. During the nineteenth century, Servia, Greece, Roumania, and Bulgaria freed themselves from the Turk, and by a concerted effort in 1912, almost drove him from Europe...
...Present War in the Light of the Balkan War" will be the subject of an address by the Rev. D. N. Furnajieff of Sofia, Bulgaria, at a joint meeting of the International Polity Club and the Cosmos politan Club in Holyoke 7 this evening at 7.30 o'clock. All members of the University interested in the discussion of international relations are cordially invited to attend...
During the recent Balkan War Rev. Furnajieff had a special permit to move freely through the field of conflict. The gave him an exceptional opportunity to study the situation at close range. Because of his broad knowledge of European relations in general, as well as those of Russia and the Balkans, he is able to furnish an interpretation of the present struggle from an unusually important point of view...
...subject of a course which President Jacob Gould Schurman will deliver at Cornell University this year. This is the first time in a number of years that the president has personally conducted a lecture course in the University. As United States Ambassador to Greece throughout all the Balkan trouble, President Schurman has come into close contact with many interesting points in international law and diplomacy, and with the present war raging in Europe, the course promises to be very interesting...