Word: albanian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forerunner of bigger & better grabs, however, the Albanian coup served as an unmistakable warning to all small countries which lie in the path of the Nazi-Fascist eastbound steam roller, the very countries which Britain has tried to persuade to join up with her. To belatedly aroused Britain and France, Italy's action was possibly more serious than Herr Hitler's recent challenges. In pushing boldly into the Balkan Peninsula, traditional spawning ground of wars, the Fascist military machine had come perilously close to clashing with the "vital interests" of the British and French Empires. Greek naval bases...
...noble resolution. If ever he made a lot of money--the absurdity of the idea rather appealed to him--he would come back to Harvard and give them a brand new, fire-proof, fireman--proof museum with "I wandered lonely as a could" written across the front in Albanian. And now Vag's only worry is that someone may do this before he gets around...
Thousands of fierce-faced, impoverished Albanian tribesmen last week donned their cleanest white blouses, Scanderbeg jackets & white-pleated fustanellas, hopped on their scrawny donkeys and jogged over mountain trails to Tirana, their odorous turbulent capital. They came to celebrate the wedding of their 42-year-old King, Zog I, to a half-American, 22-year-old Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary. Mother and father of the Countess, who prefers her Budapest nickname of "Jerry," are the onetime Gladys Virginia Stewart of Manhattan and the late Count Anton Apponyi of Budapest...
...very careful not to get mixed up in international politics through marriage." Confidant Koci's assurance was made with tongue-in-cheek. Zog has long been over his head in international waters. Since 1927 he has been a puppet of Mussolini. Italian non-interest-bearing loans bolster Albanian Government finances, the army is Italian-officered and Italy is Albania's best customer. Thus the wedding had to have the official Mussolini O.K., and Il Duce showed that he strongly approved this latest Italian-Hungarian-Albanian tie-up by having his son-in-law. Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano...
GAETA, ITALY--Nineteen persons, including a New York woman and the Albanian Minister to Rome, were burned to death when a big Italian passenger seaplane crashed from 2500 feet into the side of Mount Maramola...