Word: albanian
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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...
...week members of the Albanian congress jogged into Tirana on asses or jumped off clattering busses, as they arrived to hear King Zog, 42, formally announce that he will soon take Geraldine, 22, as his Queen. She once won a beauty contest, recently has worked in the Hungarian National Museum, selling postcards, but in Albanian eyes her chief attraction is that her grandfather was once Court Chamberlain to Kaiser Franz Josef for whose hoary whiskers and mighty Habsburg name they had if little love, at least an ominous respect...