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This was not calculated to please Jugoslavia, just to the north of Albania, because within Jugoslavia boundaries dwell 500,000 Albanians...
...King was Ahmed Bey Zogu who the day before had been President. A salvo of 101 guns was prelude to the coronation ceremonies. Lusty cheers greeted Ahmed Zogu as he later rode in state over the narrow streets of Tirana, Albania's dirty capital, which sweltered, as usual, under a bright...
...world press was mildly atwitter, last week, over reports that the long expected transformation of President Ahmed Bey Zogu of Albania into a King will shortly be accomplished. Albanians, filthy, wretched, impoverished, fly-bitten, famine starved and earthquake stricken were not much interested. They know that Ahmed Bey Zogu is President because he is also Chief of the most potent of feudal Albanian tribes. There is no one to stop him from calling himself "King," "Sultan," "Tsar," "Shah," "Mogul," "Mikado," "Inca," "Cazique," "Way-wode," "Vaivode" or even "Tycoon...
When the Allies liberated Albania from the "Enemy Powers," it seemed best for the Albanian MUMBOJUMBO to be known as "President"; but Signor Benito Mussolini has recently made Albania safe for autocracy, by extending a sphere of influence over it and encouraging Ahmed Bey Zogu to assume at least the title of "Prince...
...Albania, a model school was set up, and a farm carried on. Schneider reported that cheering and enrourage a barn before. In this atmosphere the Albania livestock had greatly disintegrated, so that any one of the cows brought from America gives as much milk as any live of the Albanian cows, according to Schneider...