Word: albanians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Still more wretched than the dispossessed are the peasants who cling to their village. Thousands of them were impressed into the guerrilla forces. Some died horribly in the mountains, some who would not fight were penned like cattle in Albanian and Bulgarian camps...
...case involved Britain's $3,500,000 damage claim against Albania for two British destroyers which ran into a minefield in the Corfu Channel, off the Albanian coast (TIME, March 3, 1947). The trial, which dragged on for almost two years, was nothing to arouse a Chicago police-court reporter, but it had its moments. Britain's Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross told how the destroyers' explosion had killed 44 British sailors, and had injured 42 more. Albania, he said, was guilty of acts that "amount to murder." Although there was evidence that the actual mining...
...borne him no sons, last week remarried in Cairo. Her new spouse: Ismail Shirene Bey, a minor official in the Egyptian premier's office. Both Fawzia (sister of Egypt's King Farouk) and her new husband are descended from Mohammed AH Pasha (1769-1849), the Albanian adventurer who founded the present Egyptian dynasty...
...Settlement of the Yugoslav-Albanian conflict...
Last month the Yugoslavs began putting up a barbed-wire barrier along the border, across which men, arms and supplies had once freely flowed. If Markos was right-that the Albanian and Bulgarian backstops were not enough for Communist victory in Greece-then the tide of battle, which lately has gone against Athens, may soon turn the other...