Word: balkanization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smart, thrifty little Tsar Boris made his first effective move toward undermining the Treaty of Neuilly in 1930 when he married a daughter of the King of Italy, gaining Bulgaria a friend among the powers which won the War. In later years, the Balkan Entente formed by Turkey, Rumania, Greece and Yugoslavia -the last two on markedly friendly terms with Italy-gradually warmed up to friendship with Bulgaria. In part, this was because Tsar Boris, with...
...Duce has rapidly rearmed Bulgaria, ignoring the Treaty of Neuilly-and she is now strong enough for the Balkan Entente to value her as a friend...
...final move came with lightning suddenness last week. Greek Premier John Metaxas, having just crushed a revolt (see col. 1), sped to Salonika for a secret rendezvous with Bulgarian Premier George Kiosseivanov. General Metaxas, as this year's president of the Balkan Entente, signed on behalf of all its members a treaty canceling the arms limitations imposed upon Bulgaria at Neuilly. In signing the new pact, the premiers also made a mutual non-aggression agreement among the five States concerned. It was considered certain that this foreshadowed the early entrance of Bulgaria into the Balkan Entente...
First battlefield appearance of Red Cross units was in the Dano-Prussian War of 1864. The Red Cross was respected as a protecting symbol for doctors, nurses, medical units in many later wars-the Austro-Prussian, the Franco-Prussian, the Russo-Japanese, the Balkan, the World War, in some Colonial wars, in a few civil wars. Not until 1935 did the first flagrant, consistent abuse of the Red Cross symbol occur. Then giant red crosses painted on Ethiopian hospitals became welcome targets for Italian airmen. Against this abuse, International Red Cross President Max Huber, former justice of The Hague...
...treason charge before a military tribunal of King Carol's officers. Charged with plotting to kidnap His Majesty and set up a Fascist state with himself as Führer and Adolf Hitler as an ally, Leader Codreanu was found guilty, sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Balkan justice being what it is, Leader Codreanu was considered to have got off lightly. In the complex fabric of Balkan politics, however, the sentence did mean that King Carol was taking no nonsense from Nazis or Nazi friends...