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...strict population basis would not work. Allowing one representative for every million of the 480,000,000 people on the Continent of Europe, France would have forty-one and Albania one. A combination of a few large States could always outvote the rest of the union. A genuine United States of Europe, founded on the successful American model, would presumably establish two legislative houses. If each nation should have one vote in the upper house, Germany, France, Italy, Poland and Spain combined could always be outvoted by a group of States with an aggregate population of loss than...
...days later a cavalcade of jovial Greek bandits rode over the mountainous divide into Albania, foregathered in the cellar of the leading Greek restaurant in the Albanian capital of Tirana. There the bandit leader, one Constantine Bogdanopoulos, ordered Italian champagne and lamb kidneys broiled on skewers, flung on the table a money belt from which spilled many a drachma, and, later in the evening, boastfully unmasked to a pop-eyed Albanian journalist the mystery of Kopra...
...Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Denmark Esthonia Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Irish Free State Italy Jugoslavia Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg The Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Rumania Spain Sweden Switzerland...
Ahmed Bey Zogu (Zog I) celebrated his first anniversary as King of Albania...
Gleefully last week anti-tobacco leagues and anti-cigaret societies pointed to young King Zog of Albania as a frightful warning. Having smoked a small carload of cigarets (coarse, loose-rolled Macedonias) in the past year,* King Zog developed such a cough that his Italian physician announced that he had completely lost his voice. King Zog was dumb. Alarming news that the dumb Zog's ailment might be cancer of the throat caused European chancelleries to turn anxious eyes on Albania. Despite its bachelor king, Albania is already an Italian protectorate to all intents and purposes. Diplomats feared that...