Word: slavia
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That volcano of unrest in European politics, the Mediterranean district, has recently displayed unmistakable signs of increasing activity. To the three great Western countries, England, France, and Italy, who hold large stakes in the lands surrounding this inland sea, have been added the two Balkan states, Roumania and Jugo Slavia, who emerged into the Class B Power class after the World War and to a certain extent replaced in the politics of the Near East dismembered Austria and red Russia...
...Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Syria, have pushed the frontiers of empires further around the Southeastern shores of the Mediterranean. Italy, intent on the Trentino and Trieste in 1919, received little in addition to disappointing Tripoli except the control of Fuime on the Adriatic. Furthermore the appearance of Roumania and Jugo-Slavia as something more than the petty Balkan princedoms of Moldavia--Wallachia and Serbia gave her rivals more serious in many ways than Austria-Hungary had been. So the Peace of Versailles brought no peace to the Near East. Italy's interests traditionally demand her further expansion in the Adriatic...
Once the policy of imperialism is admitted right, the wisdom of England's latest move is thrown into sharp relief by the new obstacles strewn in Mussolini's path in the Aegean and Adriatic by Roumania and Jugo-Slavia, obstacles well calculated to turn the attention of the Quirinal toward Egypt. The hand of France opposes Italy here no less infallibly than England elsewhere for its being hidden behind the foreign offices of Bucharest and Belgrade. Co-incident yesterday with the return to power of the Bratiano, French controlled, anti-Italian government, after a month's exile, comes news...
...Jugoslavia" or "South Slavia" is a name coined to condense into one word the numerous petty states officially united as "the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes." Unmentioned in either title are Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Dalmatia, Voyvodina, Medjumurje, the Island of Krk and the Community of Kastav, which are all included in this little Adriatic state roughly 500 miles long by 209 wide...
...peculiar situation in which Austria finds itself makes some kind of action necessary. Pared down to a fraction of its former size, faced on three sides by recently subject and vajuely hostile peoples in Hungary, Jugo-Slavia, and Czech-Slovakia, the Austrians naturally look in the fourth direction for help and find the racial and historical affinities of the German republic offering them an obvious solution. It is impossible to prephesy what would be the result on the European political situation if Germany were to be reinforced by this considerable homogeneous addition. Yet the more one contemplates the situation...