Word: albania
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...Harvard graduates who have returned to China to lead a great national movement against the policies of American and foreign financiers and concessionaires. With them should be classed such a modern Marco Polo as Fan Noli '12 that strange Bishop, General, ex-Premier, soldier of fortune and scholar of Albania. Yesterday's Associated Press dispatches carry the news that he has originated and signed a Bolshevist manifesto, which may embroil the Balkans in one of their periodic convulsions. But what is seldom mentioned in such dispatches is the fact that he has for more than a decadated the struggle...
...five Powers and six smaller nations comprising the Council of the League of Nations* assembled at Geneva last week for their regular quarterly meeting, they found that a document pregnant with international discord had been filed with the League by order of President-Dictator Ahmed Bey Zogu of Albania...
Because Italy holds a virtual protectorate over Albania, the note of Dictator Zogu received the respect appropriate to a communication undoubtedly approved if not ordered written by Italian Dictator Mussolini. It declared that the national honor of Albania had been insulted by "brutal and unconciliatory demands" made upon Albania by Jugoslavia, recently, to obtain the release of a Jugoslav spy arrested and jailed in Albania...
When these demands were refused by Albania, the note continued, the Jugoslav Government last week withdrew its Legation from Albania and gave the Albanian Minister in Belgrade just 24 hours to leave the country...
...Italy here no less infallibly than England elsewhere for its being hidden behind the foreign offices of Bucharest and Belgrade. Co-incident yesterday with the return to power of the Bratiano, French controlled, anti-Italian government, after a month's exile, comes news of a break in relations between Albania and Jugo-Slavia forced on by the latter because of the arrest of a Serb interpreter. The flimsy pretext discloses the immovability of Jugo-Slav opposition to Italy in Albania or anywhere else in the Balkan peninsula. There will be no war this time certainly, but unless imperialistic policy changes...