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When the treaty text was released at Rome its literal purport was seen to be the extension of last year's Italo-Albanian treaty of "friendship and security" (TIME, Dec. 13, 1926) into what the new document describes as "an unalterable defensive alliance for 20 years between Albania on the one hand and Italy on the other...
Significance. Although a phrase in the new treaty defines as one of its objects "the maintenance of peace and tranquility," few statesmen could construe its major clauses otherwise than a loud war-threat to nations which might conceivably wish to attack Italy or Albania: a tiny Adriatic republic, mountainous, pestilence-ridden, and shaken early this year by a devastating earthquake. Since Italy can expect no substantial aid from so puny and impotent an ally, it became interesting to speculate on why the pact signed last week constitutes "one of the greatest strokes of diplomacy yet achieved" by Il Duce...
...signing in Vienna last May a manifesto protesting against the regime of Ahmed Bey Zogu, President of Albania, Bishop Fan Stylian Noli and eight of his confederates were sentenced to death in absence, which means that if they ever set foot in Albania while President Zogu is in control they will in all likelihood be summarily executed...
Bishop Noli is a graduate of Harvard and the founder in Boston of the Orthodox Albanian Church. Twice Albanian delegate to the League of Nations, he became President and Premier of Albania in 1924. In December of the same year (TIME, Jan. 5, 1925), he was ousted by Ahmed Zogu, and for the most part has since resided in Vienna, headquarters of European political exiles...
...Noli '12, Harvard graduate, author, translator, orthodox priest, bishop, liberal, and former premier of Albania, has been sentenced to death. This sentence has been given him and eight of his compatriots for recently signing a manifesto protesting against the regime of Ahmed Zogu, who executed a coup d'etat in December, 1924, ousting Fan Noli from the Presidency. The sentences were by default, however, since all of the condemned men are living abroad...