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...seeking the practical solution to Albania's acute problem, Dr. Erickson recognizes two major needs; the first is for capital to be invested in her rich natural resources; the second is for education. To meet this second requirement Dr. Erickson has opened his American Agricultural School. The Albanian government supplied him with 1000 acres of land. It was confiscated, Dr. Erickson has been an exile with a price on his head; a few years later however he represented Albania at the peace conference...
...greatest strokes of diplomacy yet achieved by the Fascist Government," was the gloating comment, last week, of Il Tevere and other Fascist news organs, when Signor Benito Mussolini caused to be revealed in Rome that a new Italo-Albanian treaty had been signed two days previously in the Albanian capital, Tirana...
When the treaty text was released at Rome its literal purport was seen to be the extension of last year's Italo-Albanian treaty of "friendship and security" (TIME, Dec. 13, 1926) into what the new document describes as "an unalterable defensive alliance for 20 years between Albania on the one hand and Italy on the other...
Bishop Noli is a graduate of Harvard and the founder in Boston of the Orthodox Albanian Church. Twice Albanian delegate to the League of Nations, he became President and Premier of Albania in 1924. In December of the same year (TIME, Jan. 5, 1925), he was ousted by Ahmed Zogu, and for the most part has since resided in Vienna, headquarters of European political exiles...
...Noli has been prominent in Albanian political affairs for a number of years. He has the honor of being the first Albanian delegate to the League of Nations. In addition to his political work he has translated Longfellow and Shakespeare into the native dialect...