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Yugoslavia had plans for expansion in another direction. A source close to Marshal Tito reported that for the present, the old Albanian frontier would remain. Later Albania might unite with a Federated Yugoslavia...
About all that was known abroad of Hoxha was: 1) he had been born at Argyrokastron (birthplace of Albanian independence and scene of Greece's famed stand against the Italian invasion in 1940); 2) he had been a professor of French before taking to politics and war. In his first published interview, he went on record as favoring democracy for Albania and a "close alliance" with Tito's Yugoslavia, to which Albania was now bound by "ties of blood...
After five years of Italian and German occupation, Tirana, the Albanian capital, was mostly intact, though the retreating Germans had wrecked the British Legation. From the U.S. Legation, they took only the caretaker's guitar...
...looked not only like a mystery army but a mystery invasion. The operation, it now appeared, was vest-pocket in size. The attack units were apparently only a Commando force-mostly British and quite small indeed. Its purpose seemed to be to join up with Yugoslav and Albanian guerrillas to help cut German escape routes to the north...
...organized formally about four months ago and placed under the Allied Balkan Air Force. It is based in Italy and works closely with the navy and air force in order to move back & forth across the Adriatic. Its first major mission was July 29, an attack on the Albanian coast, and it now operates-necessarily thinly-over a front about 750 miles long...