Word: balkans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gone Nazi in a belated effort to get German protection (TIME, July 1). Both Berlin and Rome professed disinterest in what Russia was doing, blamed any agitation about it on a British plot to open an eastern front. Germany insisted that she would not be drawn into any Balkan adventure now and Italy told Hungary and Bulgaria not to press their claims against Rumania. But Berlin hinted darkly that present conditions were only temporary. The last thing Germany could tolerate would be permanent Russian control of the mouth of the Danube...
...Confounded" are also three: one the devoted, discarded mistress of a Balkan prince, one a huge, insensate prize fighter from Manhattan, one a tense, French Catholic Jew who betrayed his race. Each goes through shattering experiences, each suffers the wrath of the exacting...
...more. From the agitated monarchy front came the following news last week: > Too preoccupied with her frontier watch, Rumania failed to mark a historic anniversary. Ten years ago a Rumanian Army plane brought Carol of Hohenzollern back from exile. Since then Carol II has learned well the trade of Balkan king, burnished his capital with western splendor, and stuck to his grandfather's policy of trusting no one. Last week King Carol prudently passed up anniversary fetes, lay low in his handsome new palace...
...predictions of a possible Allied attack in the Mediterranean-Balkan zone were carried in the German press which gave bold headlines to "enormous tension in the Mediterranean" and "Balkans expect English attack...
...when the Balkan invasion takes place, it is a problem to decide who will do the invading. Italy will want to take over the rich plum of Hungary...