Word: albania
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...make Albania an Italian protectorate was in 1927 the ambition of Benito Mussolini. Zog in those days was President of Albania. He was presently hog-tied with a crown. Albania under King Zog settled down to pleasant wildcat treasury squandering, made possible by yearly Italian loans which, conveniently, bore no interest...
...King Vittorio Emmanuele, onetime (1915-17) commander-in-chief of Italy's navy, 1932 president of the merged Italia Line; of arteriosclerosis; in Abruzzi City, Italian Somaliland, Africa. During the War his fleet saved the Serbian Army, fighting hopelessly with its back to the sea. In 1922 Albania offered him its throne...
...pother were the Balkans last week because Premier Benito Mussolini was said to be forcing upon Albania's King Zog a customs union with Italy, threatening that unless His Majesty does as directed he will lose his fat subsidy from the Italian treasury...
Since Jugoslavia is France's Man Friday in Balkan politics and since Jugoslavia adjoins Albania it was the Jugoslav Minister in London who rushed around to the British Foreign Office last week, filed excited warning that "the Jugoslavian Royal Government views with gravest concern the situation now arising in the Balkans due to Italian policy...
...Rome he took a plane for Tirana. Albania, then flew on to Salonika. There he changed to train for Athens. Mr. Insull hurried to the Grande Bretagne Hotel. In Greece, his lawyers had told him, he would be safe from extradition...