Word: albania
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...Ambassador Ivan Maisky. Although Dictator Mussolini consistently made a liar out of his Ambassador by violating pledges as fast as they were given, Count Grandi was able to persuade Prime Ministers Baldwin and Chamberlain to negotiate Mediterranean settlements guaranteeing the status quo. It was only when Italian Blackshirts invaded Albania that Britain reluctantly decided that Il Duce could not be trusted and turned to Russia...
...weeks previously had undergone even more lavish Berlin treatment and had acted somewhat pained by it. Although known personally to prefer London's and Paris' ways to Berlin's, the Regent has nevertheless recognized that Yugoslavia is now soundly squeezed between Germany and Italy (in Albania) and that when Führer Hitler wants to entertain him he has to take...
Latest to learn this lesson of modern geography is exiled King Zog, whose kingdom of Albania was seized by the Italians last April. Having spent most of the time since his flight from Albania at Istanbul, Turkey, Zog recently decided to transfer his home to France. Shortest and quickest route from Istanbul to Paris would have been by rail on either the Orient Express or the Simplon Orient. The Orient goes through Germany and the Simplon through Italy. Zog first arranged to travel by Soviet steamer from Istanbul direct to Marseille, stopping only at Peiraeus, Greece, and Alexandria, Egypt. Normal...
...French by flattering the Arab. Although Benito Mussolini allows his Arabs in Libya precious little freedom, he has long been mightily concerned about Arab independence in French-mandated Syria and British-mandated Palestine. Il Duce proclaimed himself "Protector of Islam" two years ago, but last spring he nevertheless invaded Albania, a predominantly Moslem country. In Germany hand-picked Arabs are invited as honor guests to the Nazi Party's annual Congress at Nürnberg, where they usually hear Nazi orators bait the Jews. Both Nazi and Fascist newspapers, moreover, rarely miss a chance to fight the battle...
...tyranny did not exist. Therefore, we must act in order that it shall not exist. In this struggle, every day more urgent, no one can exactly take our place." Solemnly they heard him call the rape of Czecho-Slovakia "a flagrant violation," the rape of Albania a gesture "of diabolical flamboyance," cry "that from this great meeting there comes forth a sentence without appeal against the mystics of violence...