Word: albanian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This," declared II Duce, "is an expression of the new fraternal relations resulting from the [Italo-Albanian] Treaty of Tirana (TIME...
President Ahmed Bey Zogu and Premier Cena Bey announced last week the signing of a treaty whereby Italy (which lies just across the Adriatic) guarantees the Albanian status quo for five years and each nation covenants to enter no agreement disadvantageous to the other. Jugoslavians whose frontier bounds Albania upon the north wrathfully descried in the new treaty a virtual Italian protectorate over Albania, something which Jugoslavia has long desired for herself...
...latest reports emanating from the Near East are to be believed, another periodic Balkan crisis is at hand. Jugo-Slavia buzzes with rumors of an Albanian invasion, and fighting, which had broken out along the Salonikan frontier between Greek and Bulgarian troops, has just been halted by a truce Now Greece has sent a twenty-four hour ultimatum to her aggressive neighbor demanding reparations...
Thus opens the newest chapter in the tempestuous life of Fan S. Noli '12, Albanian Harvard graduate, bishop-ex-Premier. When last heard of, Noli was disappearing into Italy, taking with him a loyal coterie of cabinet officers and followers, and "a lot of money". Now he turns up in the capital of Austria, having discarded the role of politician for that of author. What matter if the door of his native country is barred to him? For Fan Noli it means but an opportunity to continue his literary work, interrupted by the demands of his unstable position as head...
Meanwhile from Tirana. Albanian capital, comes news of the "villain" of this latest Balkan drama. Ahmed Zogu, inveterate rival of Bishop Noli, is now in full control of the government. The constituent assembly has declared Albania a republic, with a constitution modeled after that of the United States, and has named Zogu as president for a term of seven years...