Word: albania
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...Benito Mussolini it had been a Latin pageant: the refurbishing of old Roman monuments and the building of new ones; marshland drained and colonies settled; a corporative state and the Balilla; adventure in Corfu, Ethiopia, Spain, Albania, Greece and Egypt; the dream of Mare Nostrum and the grandest of Mediterranean empires...
Rebellious Albania might be the least of Il Duce's worries, but it was the most chronic. A people whose "nationalism does not whisper because their country is small," the Albanians had never accepted the Fascist conquest of 1939. Now patriot resistance, fanned by new hope, was mounting. It could be measured by Rome's frantic hunt for a popular puppet leader. For Prime Minister in Tirana Mussolini chose tricky, turncoat Ekrem Libohova, once ex-King Zog's Foreign Minister. This was Albania's fourth "government...
...1870s P. T. Barnum picked up one Georgius Constantine, a Greek from Albania, not one quarter inch of whose body was clear of designs. Claiming that he had been covered from...
...which the rest of their book is sprawling, disorganized documentation, emanates less from the armchair than from the bouncing seats of cars on Mussolini's roads. To watch the Fascist empire at war, the Packards jolted over thousands of miles of Neo-Roman roads in Abyssinia, Spain, Albania, North Africa and Italy...
...revolts and insurrections from Albania to Slovenia seemed to be organized either by spontaneous local groups of peasants and workers or by Communists. Said a traveler to Istanbul from Sofia: "The Bulgarian people today see the sole hope for their country's future salvation in the creation of closer ties with Russia." The London Daily Herald's correspondent cabled from Istanbul: "If a Balkan front were to be opened up by the United Nations today . . . there would be revolution in Bulgaria tomorrow...