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...forerunner of bigger & better grabs, however, the Albanian coup served as an unmistakable warning to all small countries which lie in the path of the Nazi-Fascist eastbound steam roller, the very countries which Britain has tried to persuade to join up with her. To belatedly aroused Britain and France, Italy's action was possibly more serious than Herr Hitler's recent challenges. In pushing boldly into the Balkan Peninsula, traditional spawning ground of wars, the Fascist military machine had come perilously close to clashing with the "vital interests" of the British and French Empires. Greek naval bases...
...intention of changing that status quo. Last week Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano gravely assured British Ambassador Lord Perth that Italy did not intend to take "drastic action" in Albania. Just three days later Italian warships raced across the Adriatic, Italian legionnaires landed under protective gunfire at four Albanian ports, Italian aviators bombed Albanian towns...
...capital perched in the mountains of the tiny Kingdom of Albania. Boom followed boom until 101 had shaken the sleeping town. A son and heir had just been born to King Zog I and his Hungarian-American consort, Queen Geraldine. The man-child was named Skander after the great Albanian patriot who in the 15th Century stood off the Turks during some 30 years of hard fighting...
...planes that could not possibly be Albania's, since the country had only two. They dropped no bombs but leaflets fluttered down in the spring breeze announcing that "friendly" Italian troops were arriving that day to take over the country and "reestablish order, peace and justice." At four Albanian seaports, the nearest one (Durazzo) only 25 miles from Tirana, warships soon hove into sight, began bombarding. Troops were landed. A skirmish or so developed. The little Albanian army of 13,000 was quickly mobilized, and hardy mountaineer fighters brought out their ancient rifles, pistols, carved daggers...
...time heavily-armed Fascist legionnaires had overcome this petty resistance and pushed their way up the steep mountain grades to the Capital. In two days they had occupied all the important points of the country, with casualties of only 21 killed, 97 wounded. The Albanian Army vanished into the fastnesses of Albania's Dinaric Alps where, unless the Sons of the Eagle (as the Albanians call themselves) have changed since the Turks dealt with them for five centuries, they can be expected to put up a guerrilla warfare until Kingdom Come...