Word: albanians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albanian mountaineers proclaimed an independent Albania and fought the Italians on three fronts...
...south. He was bombed by the Nazis in Norway until his teeth chattered-sizzled with the Aussies in the sands of Libya-flew with British bombers from Greek fields when they raided the Italians at Brindisi. After that he covered the Greek campaign from the fighting in the Albanian mountains to the tragic evacuation of the Australians and the British from the Greek ports. Hell-bent for more, he was on his way to report the Allied occupation of Syria when a truck got out of control and did something no bomb or bullet had been able to do-invalided...
...Hitler. As he watches from his mountain walls, he stands for every European saboteur who awaits the moment to jam the machine, plant the bomb, or pry up the railroad rail. He has directly inspired others, like Rumanian Patriot Ion Minulescu, who harries the Axis from the Carpathians, and Albanian and Montenegrin guerrillas who worry at Italian flanks on the Adriatic coast...
When Hitler's Panzers began rolling into Yugoslavia last April, General (then Colonel) Mihailovich led his regiment into the mountain fastnesses near the Albanian border and let the enemy roll on to Greece. The collapse of the only partly mobilized Yugoslav Army meant that thousands of soldiers, fully and modernly equipped, rushed to Mihailovich. Soon Mihailovich began systematically harassing Nazi police units and the pro-Nazi Croatian Ustashi...
Fortnight ago the Axis learned a lesson in the possible dangers of Balkan partitioning. On a tour of the Albanian battlefields went Italy's and Albania's little 71-year-old King Vittorio Emanuele III. While he was motoring toward the Tirana airport with Albanian Premier Shefket Verlaci, a 19-year-old Greek named Vasil Laci Mihailoff fired four wild pistol shots at the King's car. On Mihailoff's person the police later found "futuristic poems" dealing with "love and hatred among farm animals." The Italians promptly dubbed Mihailoff a "poetic maniac" and further claimed...