Word: balkanization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clearly enough that Octavian Goga could no longer conceivably win the Rumanian election scheduled for March. Everyone else in Rumania saw this too, and although only a few thought the King had "planned it that way," none was surprised when Carol II dismissed Premier Goga with curt, characteristic Balkan ruthlessness, abruptly snapping: "I want your resignation...
Julius Nagy-Apponyi of Budapest. Through the jagged mountains of Albania their daughter Geraldine was taken to Tirana, a typically odorous, turbulent Balkan capital...
...model Author Rodocanachi disclaims any single prototype, says he drew on several adventurous Greeks of his acquaintance. His own career offered a good starting point. Egyptian-born, English-educated, Constantine Rodocanachi is a veteran of the Greco-Turkish, the Balkan and World Wars, was a leader of the Venizelos revolution. He has made and lost several fortunes, served in the diplomatic corps. Now 58 years old, he has retired to devote his full time to writing. Forever Ulysses is his first novel...
...understands nothing; and when he knows nothing he understands everything. ... To exploit the natives of every country is for the Greek an atavistic dream. . . . For the Greeks alone have known how to worst the Jews." The resulting Greek portrait may seem to Occidentals as confusing and contradictory as Balkan activities generally, may also constitute a tribute to the author's honesty...
Conant, one of the leading scholars in the country on this subject, has visited churches not only in the region of Constantinople and in Greece but in the Balkan lands and in Russia...