Word: albania
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...long-planned drive to expand federal Yugoslavia at the expense of Greek Macedonia. From Athens the New York Times's European Chief Cyrus Sulzberger reported: "There is a pattern behind these events linked to the politically homogeneous Governments of Greece's three northern neighbors [Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania], who are all ideologically tied to the Soviet Union." Was Russia, through her Balkan satellites, resuming a historic push toward a warm-water port on the Aegean...
...Athens Regent Archbishop Damaskinos met attack with counterattack. For Greece he claimed the Epirus section of southern Albania, where "many of our people are suffering persecution" under Albania's Premier Enver Hoxha. Hoxha is believed to have somewhat the same relation to Marshal Tito that Tito has to the Kremlin...
...Prime Minister is short, shifty-eyed Admiral Petros Voulgaris. He harps on two points: 1) the need for "security"; 2) the right of Greece to northern Epirus. now a part of Albania. When I asked what he thought of Americans and Britons in Greece, he said: "I wish they would stay here forever." There is only a handful of U.S. soldiers; the British have several divisions...
...stubborn fact of Yugoslavia. If reports were true, when a small British liberating force landed in Dalmatia last November, Marshal Tito disarmed them and threatened them with internment. Then London ordered them to withdraw. Now people close to Tito were talking about a Yugoslav Federation which would include Albania, parts of Greece and Bulgaria...
Yugoslavia had plans for expansion in another direction. A source close to Marshal Tito reported that for the present, the old Albanian frontier would remain. Later Albania might unite with a Federated Yugoslavia...