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Said the unofficial Army & Navy Journal last week: "Since D-day in France, greater preoccupation has been shown by Russia in her Baltic and Balkan campaigns and by Great Britain in Italy, Greece and Albania than in the prime objective of our armies-the prompt defeat of Germany. In the liberated countries there have been Communistic and British interference and clashing which affect military operations. ... It was expected from the attitude of Marshal Stalin a year ago that he would cooperate. . . . [Now] Communistic activities would indicate that no effective brake has been applied...
Married. Hassan Nachaat Pacha, 55, sporting Egyptian Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, attended by King-in-exile Zog of Albania; and Patricia Mary Pansy Priest, 23, British nursery-schoolmistress; he for the second time; in London. The bride became a Moslem last February; to wed her, Dr. Nachaat Pacha proffered his resignation as Ambassador, because under Egyptian law no diplomat may marry a foreigner...
...first it appeared that the British and Americans had finally made the grand invasion of the Balkans. Allied headquarters in Rome permitted correspondents to go all out, announce that a new organization known as the Land Forces of the Adriatic had landed in Albania and the Yugoslav islands...
Russia's Red Army lunged last week across the Danube into Yugoslavia. British forces landed on the coasts of Albania, on the islands of Dalmatia, inched into Greece. From two sides of the Balkan massif, Europe's two greatest powers were approaching a junction in the Balkans. Waiting at this mountainous meeting place of empires was a man who had newly risen into political history after a cryptic lifetime in the political underground: Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito. Tossed up suddenly in the slipstream of military and political movements, he was as little familiar to most...
...room mansion outside London, Albania's King Zog and his half-American Queen Geraldine held modest court but kept a sensitive ear cocked Balkanwards. Zog was dead set on going home. Said he: "Whether I'm King or not, Albania is my fatherland...