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...their periodic convulsions. But what is seldom mentioned in such dispatches is the fact that he has for more than a decadated the struggle of a harassed and impoverished country for peace and freedom, that he has completed the first translation of the New Testament into Albanian, and that he is one of those few who have striven to carry the fruits of a new continent to the old Mediterranean. No less an infamous graduate of Harvard is John Silas Reed '10. He has been officially read out of membership in his class at Harvard, but under the walls...
When these demands were refused by Albania, the note continued, the Jugoslav Government last week withdrew its Legation from Albania and gave the Albanian Minister in Belgrade just 24 hours to leave the country...
Such action pertinently suggested that Jugoslavia, after breaking off relations with Albania, would shortly declare war. The Albanian note to the League Council last week was therefore in the nature of a national alibi, registered with the League, so that, if war breaks out, Dictator Ahmed Bey Zogu of Albania may disclaim all responsibility before the world...
...League Council Members, notably Sir Austen Chamberlain, M. Aristide Briand and Dr. Gustav Stresemann (respectively foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany) had power last week only to scan the Albanian note, make it a matter of record. They then proceeded with the humdrum but important routine business of the League...
...since the second Balkan War he has gradually assumed an increasingly dominant national position, winning other tribal clans to his support with tact and skill. During the two years of his presidency there have been built 300 bridges and almost 1,000 kilometres of roads?a desperate necessity if Albanian commerce is ever to develop...