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...householder in the Zizinia district of Alexandria, had fair assurance that the neighborhood wouldn't get run down. Moving in as next-door neighbor this week was ex-King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy-the old Adriatic neighbor who had had him evicted from his Albanian house & home...
Another of Europe's little kings last week toppled from a theoretical throne. In Tirana, a Constituent Assembly announced the end of the 17-year-old Albanian monarchy, proclaimed a republic under leftist, authoritarian Premier Enver Hoxha. The announcement was followed by a lavish 101-gun salute and two days of public revelry...
When it was all over they danced in the streets, shouting, "Enver Hoxha, Enver Hoxha." The counting would not be completed for several days. But they knew that their future was in the hands of this 37-year-old leader who had learned French as an Albanian diplomat in Belgium, ran a flower shop to mask his activities against King Zog, led the guerrillas against the Italians and Germans...
...trade terms as good as those offered any other power (i.e., Russia). Both the U.S. and Britain suddenly promised to recognize the pro-Communist Albanian Government of Premier Colonel General Enver Hoxha-provided the Dec. 2 elections were free. The U.S. added its own condition: its most-favored-nation agreement of 1922 with Albania must remain valid...
Wanted: Macedonia. Macedonia lies on the northern shore of the Aegean Sea, between Turkish Thrace and the Albanian mountains. Bulgars, Serbs, Greeks have eyed it jealously ever since the breakdown of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century...