Word: albania
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...King Farouk does not claim to be descended from the Pharaohs. His ancestors came out of Albania...
Died. Prince Valdemar of Denmark, 80, oldest member of the Danish royal house; of bronchial influenza; in Copenhagen. Before the World War five kings called Prince Valdemar uncle - those of England, Norway, Denmark, Greece, Russia. In 1887 he was offered the throne of Bulgaria, in 1913 that of Albania. He refused both...
...primer of the Balkans would begin by describing them as a backward group of peewee States (Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece) whose combined outline is wedge-shaped like South America's. Like the South American States, the Balkans have been characterized by their propensity for rapid and explosive political change, by their archaic society, which has kept the land largely primitively agricultural and industrially undeveloped. The 310,000 square miles of Balkan territory are naturally rich. Economically this territory is important to both Germany and England because it is a source of raw materials and a market for manufactured...
Hoarse-voiced King Zog of Albania five months ago requested a swank Paris jeweler to send him some $600,000 worth of precious gems on approval so he could select a few stones for his Queen-to-be, impoverished, half-American, 22-year-old Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary. Albania's fierce, feuding tribesmen were not surprised. Wily Zog, a onetime clan chieftain of fine old farming ancestry, has always done his business on the approval basis. He shopped for a bride in the same way. At least one European lady of title, suitable and willing to become...
...through marriage." Confidant Koci's assurance was made with tongue-in-cheek. Zog has long been over his head in international waters. Since 1927 he has been a puppet of Mussolini. Italian non-interest-bearing loans bolster Albanian Government finances, the army is Italian-officered and Italy is Albania's best customer. Thus the wedding had to have the official Mussolini O.K., and Il Duce showed that he strongly approved this latest Italian-Hungarian-Albanian tie-up by having his son-in-law. Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, interrupt his Franco-Italian talks in Rome to bustle across...