Word: albania
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...those romantics who seek the bizarre in politics, Albania offers an illimitable source of novelties. Its tangled threads of political, religious and economic-puzzles give little prospect of solution...
...present and future of Albania are, indeed, bright as an inexhaustible spring of controversy, and it is unlikely that this busy little state will allow the Balkans, to relapse from the front page. Other states may fall in line with the humdrum task of self-government and industrial development, but Albania will always stand by the ancient and honored ideal of self-determination by the sword. The new-fangled ideas of democracy and representative government may vitiate the national character of neighboring countries, but Albania is resolved to uphold to the last man the Balkan ideal of confusion, poverty...
...instrumental in gaining statehood for Albania, thereby tending to assure peace in the Balkans...
...that the Albanians were the first group of the Caucasian race to migrate into Europe", he said, "they are now centuries behind the other European races in point of development. Part of this backwardness is due to the Paris Peace Conference which although it made the mountainous section of Albania independent, cut off 200,000 of these stalwart people, from their plains and prairies, without setting up any machinery to help them take advantage of their independence, or to educate them to their responsibilities...
...Erickson is in this country for the purpose of securing American support in founding an institution similar to Hampton Institute in Albania...