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...black-braided baggy white trousers, red fezzes, pirate sashes. Their pay is $12 a month. Firearms are by Mauser and Anfaldo. These ornate banditti are mountaineers of the tribe of Mati, and they guard their tribal Chief, Ahmed Bey Zogu, who is nominally President and actually Dictator of Albania...
Feverish rumors continued last week that Albania, backed by Italy, is preparing war on Jugoslavia. Famed Croatian Jugoslav leader Stefan Raditch even went so far last week as to exclaim: "We are not afraid of the Italian Colossus with feet of clay, nor of its puppet-pawn, Albania. . . . We are against war, but if the Italians want to fight we will fling them into the Adriatic...
Correspondent Larry Rue spent an entire week covering the Albania-Jugoslav frontier from Greece to the Adriatic for the Chicago Tribune. His motor car, he cabled, was the first through the mile- high, snow-covered uplands since December. A broken connecting rod meant getting another car, and friendly peasants shoveled much snow and pushed often and mightily. "I visited every garrison, outpost and supply depot," cabled thoroughgoing Correspondent Rue, concluding that in his opinion the Jugoslavs were emphatically not mobilized last week...
From Tirana, Albanian Capital, a London Daily Mail correspondent sent news even more reassuring: "There are no Italian troops whatever in Albania." Yet, such is the persistence of the war rumor (TIME, Jan. 10) that major statesmen in the chief European capitals found time to inform correspondents last week that Albania is "a perilous zone ... a looming danger . . . portent . . . menace...
...Albania is a country of grim politics, sudden tribal uprisings, secret murders, and foreign intrigues. No man was even better suited to such an environment than Fan Noli and those interested it Albanian politics will be sure to heat from him soon again...