Word: albanians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ominous to Greek ears was another Italian sound-effect they heard that evening - from Mussolini's news agency, Stefani: news that there had been a "border incident" that day near the Corizza Pass on the Greek-Albanian border, and a bomb incident at Porto Edda (named for Il Duce's daughter). The Italians, of course, blamed Greek "armed bands" and agents. Denial of the affairs by the Greeks went unheard, their offers of discussion were turned down. Within a few hours Mussolini and Hitler had one more conference, at Florence (see p. 28), and Italy...
Afraid to announce that Greece was on the spot, Athens slipped word to Cairo, where Greek diplomatic quarters revealed the Axis price for peace: 1) immediate severance of economic relations with Great Britain; 2) cession to Italy of a strip of territory along the Albanian frontier; 3) cession to Bulgaria of a corridor to the Aegean; 4) permission to Italy to construct a military road from Albania to Salonika; 5) use of Greek air bases by Germany and Italy; 6) abdication of King George II and resignation of Premier John Metaxas...
Robin Hood's Head. Italy's pretext for stirring up trouble with Greece was the murder, some time in the last month, of an Albanian named Daout Hoggia. The Italian press claimed that Hoggia, an irredentist and a "sort of Robin Hood," had been killed by Greeks, who chopped off his head and displayed it as a warning in villages where Albanian minorities live. The Greeks said that Hoggia was a bandit, that he was killed by fellow Albanians who fled to Greece, that so far as they knew his head was still on his corpse. Slim...
Greece, which endured a civil strife, armed invasion and blockade before she was persuaded to enter the last war on the Allied side, again faced the prospect of losing her strategic base Salonika, which lies just 100 miles from the Albanian border. Her premier and dictator, John Metaxas, who was deported by the Allies in 1917 as a German political agent, is an admirer of Hitler. His people, grown poorer under totalitarianism, prefer the Allies, particularly France. Given a chance to choose her side, Greece would probably have a revolution deciding. But her opinion would very likely not be asked...
...with Britain over coal, in the end managed to have most of his coal and burn Ribbentrop too. Last week he had everyone utterly bewildered. There was talk of sending an Ambassador back to Moscow, even though Premier Molotov was making such aspersive remarks about Italy's Albanian grab that the Italian press would not print them. Il Duce moved to renew the British trade talks, and French Premier Reynaud had a long and apparently pleasant talk with Ambassador Raffaele Guariglia. But as French Ambassador André François-Poncet returned to Paris, L'Oeuvre commented...