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...Achmet's Women Sirs: In my Jan. n copy of TIME I read your account of Achmet Zogu's efforts to marry into European nobility, and thought that perhaps you would be interested in knowing why the Countess Johanna Von Mikes will not marry him. Outside Albania the situation is not understood, owing to lack of knowledge regarding Albanian marriage laws and customs. I lived in Albania-in Tirana from 1926 to 1928-and Achmet's difficulties with Shefqut Bey Elbassani were common knowledge at that time. The Countess will not marry Achmet because he is already...
Neither the law of the country nor the law of his religion would forbid a second wife. In Albania, the signing of the marriage contract by the bride's father and by the groom, makes a marriage. It is legal and binding. There is, however, another law relating to marriages. The bride cannot leave her father's house, no matter how legally she may be married, until her husband comes for her, with appropriate ceremony symbolizing marriage by capture. It is known as "taking" the bride. If he never comes she can do nothing about it. When Achmet...
Some years ago His Majesty King Zog posted with the more reputable European marriage brokers an offer of $5,000 for a bride "suitable to become Queen of Albania," and willing. Tirana, the mountainous little kingdom's capital, is regarded among diplomats as the "worst hole" in Europe. In a famed instance, lonely King Zog through his telescope espied from the Royal Palace four traveling salesmen playing cards in their Tirana hotel bedroom, telephoned over to ask if he could come and join the game. The defects of Tirana, plus His Majesty's extreme addiction to chain-smoked...
...Albania swarthy chiefs have for years been trying to force King Zog to marry Fatima, the daughter of Shefquti Bey and "one of us!" Last year 23 Albanians, who had been urging the charms of Fatima with weapons were seized by order of His Majesty and immediately sentenced to death, but most Albanians still think Zog should marry Fatima...
...cellar door into the Middle East opened only after nearly two years of patient palaver in Afghanistan's moun tain capital of Kabul, in Geneva and in Berlin. Able diplomat in these negotiations was Charles Calmer Hart, oldtime Washington correspondent of the Portland Oregonian, U. S. Minister to Albania un der President Coolidge, Minister to Persia under President Hoover. Then the only trained newsman in the diplomatic service, subtle, cheerful Charlie Hart provided the State Department with some of its best official reading in his reports on such mat ters as the development started by Stand...