Word: albania
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...note was the fourth in a high-pitched controversy about Yugoslavia's territorial demands on Austrian Carinthia, which Russia first backed, then repudiated (TIME, June 27). Europe's rumor factories at once produced pertinent whispers: a Soviet airlift across Yugoslavia was reinforcing isolated little Albania"; Marshal Ivan S. Konev was in Bulgaria warming up a Cominform army...
Earlier in the week Tito had incited the peoples of Bulgaria and Albania against their Cominform rulers. "I think the time will come when we will help them to remove all obstacles which individuals have placed in the way of our fraternal relations." Thirteen months after Tito had been denounced by Moscow's Cominform as a Trotskyite traitor, he was still going strong. Western observers were beginning to believe that Stalin could not afford much longer to ignore Tito's dare...
...Albania. . 4. Rumania...
...commander, Georgios Vrontissios, alias Goussias, a former printer whose mustache is considerably less impressive than his predecessor's. According to the likeliest of many conflicting reports from the frontier regions, aid to the rebels from Tito's Yugoslavia seemed to have stopped almost entirely, although Bulgaria and Albania were faithfully carrying...
...case involved Britain's $3,500,000 damage claim against Albania for two British destroyers which ran into a minefield in the Corfu Channel, off the Albanian coast (TIME, March 3, 1947). The trial, which dragged on for almost two years, was nothing to arouse a Chicago police-court reporter, but it had its moments. Britain's Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross told how the destroyers' explosion had killed 44 British sailors, and had injured 42 more. Albania, he said, was guilty of acts that "amount to murder." Although there was evidence that the actual mining...