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...much to restore the balance of power that had recently been weighted heavily in the dictators' favor. They also convinced many an observer that war had been made inevitable. When the British guarantee to Poland was announced three weeks ago, the Axis answered by the seizure of Albania. With Greece and Rumania added to the Peace Front last week, all Europe knew that it was again Hitler's and Mussolini's move. The German press screamed again that the Führer would strike before he would allow the Reich to be "encircled" as it was before...
...Poland and the League of Nations, is Poland's No. 2 port. It handles two-thirds the tonnage of nearby, all-Polish Gdynia. For four years Danzig has been run by a German Nazi Government. For Germany to take Danzig would be, politically, like the Italians taking Albania. The question that made Danzig a birthday box with a bomb in it was: how much more grabbing will the "Peace Front" permit the Axis...
...French Fleet had one end of the Mediterranean tied up and the English had the other. Nevertheless, flushed by its recent conquest of Albania, Fascist Italy last week talked, screamed, shrieked empire. One night tens of thousands of ardent black-shirted Fascists marched from their neighborhood clubs to Rome's famed Piazza, di Venezia. Shouting their Fascist slogans, singing their Party's songs, they faced the lighted windows of the massive Palazzo Venezia, where, as they all knew, the powerful Fascist Grand Council was meeting to decide high questions of State...
...salute over, Signor Starace read the Grand Council's decision: The Albanian Constituent Assembly (set up by Italy after Albania's conquest) had offered the Albanian crown to Vittorio Emmanuele III, King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia. With "virile joy" the Council, guardian of the Crown's prerogatives, accepted the offer. Up from the huge square went more roars of approval. As Empire Builder Mussolini moved forward to speak, the thousands below called for more of the same. Up to the balcony came cries of "On to Paris!" "Tunisia!" "Down with France!" Speaker Mussolini replied with...
Born. To Zog I, 43, Mohammedan King of the Albanians; and his wife, Catholic Queen Geraldine, 23; a son; their first child and Albania's Crown Prince; in Tirana...