Word: balkans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the more knowledgeable Balkanese got sick & tired of wars. It was largely as an expression of this feeling that in 1934 four Balkan nations-Turkey, Yugoslavia, Greece and Rumania-formed the Balkan Entente. The Entente's simple, appealing slogan: "The Balkans for the Balkanese." At first it attracted little attention. But as the Nazi shadow lengthened over Europe, as Hitler crushed the French-backed Little Entente (Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia), as the Great Powers began to bid more strongly for alliances, secret understandings, greater trade, the Balkan Entente became a matter of gravest international concern...
Germany's ministers to all the Balkan nations were mobilized last fortnight in Berlin, on the eve of this week's meeting of the Balkan Entente in Belgrade. The crisis of one of the decisive battles of the War was at hand - a battle for the raw materials of the Balkans...
OVER MY DEAD BODY-Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nero Wolfe, who once fought in the Montenegrin Army, has a bit of a time with Balkan intrigue and a couple of quaintly accented lovelies named Lovchen and Tormic. One of them is probably his daughter; either might have murdered one of the fencers at a Manhattan salle d'armes. Archie Goodwin does all the work hvala Bogu (thank...
...badly feared presence of Soviet Russia on Hungary's northeast border is a controlling factor in the present tentative Balkan lineup. If that line-up holds and Rumania has to fight Russia, Hungary will not grab for Transylvania, nor Bulgaria for Dobruja. Hungary may even remain benevolently neutral and let Italian and Yugoslav war supplies cross into Rumania. Never were the Balkans more united than they seemed last week against Russia. A cordial exchange even took place between Bulgaria and her old enemy Turkey...
...four in Bessarabia, which Rumania might even yield under stress, taking her stand along the River Prut. But meantime Rumania is frantically strengthening her positions from the Black Sea, along the entire length of the Russian border, and back along the entire length of the Hungarian border-honor among Balkan nations cannot be trusted...