Word: albania
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...Losses. Ike calculated with grim arithmetic the free world's recent territory losses to Russia. In Europe: Latvia, Estonia, Poland, East Germany, East Austria, Czechoslovakia, Albania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania, with a total of 94 million people. "All these people are blood kin to us . . . The American conscience can never know peace until these people are restored again to be masters of their own fate...
Fifty-six of the bishops and monsignori are in Eastern Europe. In Russia, Rumania, Albania and the Baltic countries (now part of the Soviet Union), the hierarchy has been virtually wiped out. In the other Iron Curtain countries, it has been badly crippled. Russian Bishop Boleslav Sloskans, imprisoned since 1927, is either dead or in Siberia. The Lithuanian bishop of Kaisedorys and the Estonian apostolic administrator have been sent to Siberia. One Hungarian bishop, the Vatican announced, "has probably died" in a concentration camp. In Yugoslavia, Titoist but still Communist, one bishop is in jail, two (including Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac...
...other nine (Italy, Ireland, Finland, Portugal, Austria, Ceylon, Nepal, Jordan and Libya), but resents Russia's exclusion of South Korea and its inclusion of satellite Outer Mongolia, which is no more a sovereign nation than South Dakota. Addition of the other satellite countries (Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania and Albania) would also relatively strengthen the voting position of the Soviet bloc. On any issue requiring two-thirds majority, every vote counts...
Ever since Mussolini's troops marched over his tiny kingdom of Albania, former King Zog, like many another D.P., has been looking for a place to put down roots. Last week he found just what he wanted: a 60-room mansion bordered with a half mile of rhododendron bushes, plus 100-odd acres of rich farm land, on Long Island. It was a barter deal, reported the New York Times. Short on cash, Zog had plunked down "a bucket of diamonds and rubies" in a royal exchange. The King's spokesmen hastily sent out frantic denials. The King...
...Albania's ex-King Zog, who has been living in England and Egypt for the past eleven years, arrived in Manhattan, on his first visit to the U.S., for a tourist's look at "some modern civilization...