Word: albanian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probably U. S. Minister to Jugoslavia Dr. John Dyneley Prince who prides himself on being able to talk with almost any other diplomat in the latter's native tongue. Once, at a Belgrade diplomatic soiree, Dr. Prince realized that he was stumped, could not talk to the Albanian Minister in Albanian. Casually they chatted in Turkish. Later the Albanian Minister said with difficulty to a U. S. matron in Albanian English: "What a strange you Americans are! What a silly! You hire a Turk to be your Minister to Jugoslavia! To me it is a sorry but I could...
Next day Britain quietly lined up with France. At the Foreign Office, abashed Italian newshawks were told by suave minions of not-so-suave British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon that "Premier Mussolini, it is hoped and believed, will abandon this project, with the result that the proposed Italo-Albanian customs union will die a speedy death...
...sent to Egypt. There, besides making himself a thorn in the flesh of red-taped, uninformed superiors, he did such jobs as edit a handbook of information about the Turkish Army, containing such unsoldierly comments as "General Abd el Mahmoud commanding the ?th Division is half-Albanian by birth and a consumptive; an able officer and a gunnery expert; but a vicious scoundrel, and will accept bribes." Chafing at the restrictions and routine of army life in Cairo. Lawrence cast an envious eye at the Arab revolt just getting under way across the Red Sea. He made a general...
...named Carlo Lorioli who came originally from Milan, married a Milanese and had himself naturalized a Hungarian in order to get a divorce in Fiume. This story did not prevent Prince Edgar from turning up in Turkey shortly after his departure from Vienna. He led an uprising of the Albanian Maltsori tribes and was elected their chief...
...girl, a blonde, called "Baroness" Francisco von Janko, who later explained: "The King has forbidden me to talk about our friendship. But I can say he has been extraordinarily kind to me. He is wonderful, and a great cavalier. . . ." As they reached the theatre's main exit two lurking Albanian youths popped nine pistol shots at the King. They killed King Zog's adjutant Mayor Lash Topolai and dangerously wounded his court chamberlain Ekrem Libohova. King & "Baroness" were unharmed, having dodged back into the opera house...