Word: albanian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent attacks and insults that were published upon the three Albanian Princesses on the good-will tour to this country were outrageous [TIME, Feb. 28]. The statement concerning Their Highnesses' visit to this country in search of rich husbands not only is untrue but it is an insult to the entire Royal Family of Albania and also to the Albanian nation...
...knows the true nature of the Albanian Princesses' visit. One thing I am sure is that they did not come here to get married, because such a visit is contrary to Albanian hereditary traditions...
...Albanian Press of New York...
Albania, an independent nation since 1913, was long a part of Turkey, is still 69% Mohammedan. It has, however, 100,000 Roman Catholics, 200,000 adherents of the Albanian Orthodox Church. Moreover, there are 25,000 Albanian-born Christians in the U. S. Most of the 10,000 living in New England belong to the Christian Albanian Church. The founder of this church, named Fan Stylian Noli, is a Harvard classmate (1912) of Humorist Robert Benchley, Steelman Hugh Gaddis, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Kermit Roosevelt. He is undoubtedly the only man who was ever, at the same time, a Harvard...
...three princesses were not, as had been reported, hunting rich U. S. husbands-up to last week they had not bagged any-they were admittedly seeking to heal the breach between Bishop Noli and their brother. This they accomplished with great dispatch with the aid of the Albanian minister to the U. S., Faik Konitza, a friend of both Zog and the bishop. Minister Konitza, Bishop Noli and the three princesses chatted in Boston's Ritz-Carlton Hotel and next day the Moslem sisters, overdressed as usual, attended two Boston Albanian churches in which prayers were offered for King...