Word: balkanization
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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There are grave possibilities of a European crisis, if the factional strife be carried to extremes. One, perhaps all, of the candidates are backed by the Powers that have a special interest in that part of Europe. The Balkan states, in times past, have furnished diplomatic and warlike diversion at the pleasure of a Guiding Hand. Greece may yet do likewise...
...field of History. He has served as President of the first United States Philippine Commission, and, in 1912 and 1913, as our minister to Greece and Montenegro. While in this official capacity, he gathered the first-hand material that he later published in the authoritative book on the Balkan Wars of 1912-13. On his return to this country in 1915, he was elected to the office of first Vice-President of the New York State Constitutional Convention. During the war, in 1917, he again entered public service as a member of the New York State Food Commission...
...Dream," I take extreme pleasure in attacking his unsupported statements. Although he thinks it is unnecessary to get into arguments over Italy's complete annexation of Fiume, yet, contrary to his intentions, he begins to argue by saying that Italy in possessing Fiume would virtually bottle up the Balkan Slavs; besides, he gives no proofs for this false statement. And it is this and the astonishing assertions about D'Annunzio that compel me to write you this letter...
...Adriatic claims were granted, the Jugo-Slavs would still have thirteen important ports, among which are Serenico, Spalato, Metovic, Ragusa, and Cattaro, all having excellent railroad communications with the illterior. Yet it is said that Fiume and not any of the above is the natural port of the Balkan Slavs. The falsity of such a statement is plainly evident from the Austrian official trade statistics of 1915. Here we find that only 7 per cent of Jugo-Slav commerce is carried on through Fiume, while 87 per cent is carried on through the above-named ports. Does this not show...
...Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913, disapproved by Austria, who believed that first Turkey and then Bulgaria would win, gave Serbia greatly increased territory and prestige, and its was particularly worth recalling that all Jugo-Slave turned toward her. Austria-Hungary felt herself endangered with the menace of the story of the liberation of Italy all over again and determined to prevent it. Then followed the murder of Ferdinand, although he was a friend of the Jugo-Slave, and the beginning of the World War. Swiftly sketching the invasion of Serbia and its conquest, the pact of Corfu, July...