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...amusing and inoffensive. But the fantastic letter published in TIME on Feb. 1 and signed Helen Dore Boylston compels me to send you an answer. It is said in the letter published by you that the King of Albania was and is still married to the daughter of Shefqet Bey Elbasani, a great landowner. This is a libel of the coarsest type. The King was once engaged to the lady in question, but the engagement was ended by mutual consent. She after wards married Djemil Bey Dino, the present Envoy of Albania to Bulgaria, and is happily living with...
...Majesty King Zog I of Albania and to His Excellency Faik bey Konitza, TIME's apologies for reprinting in its Letters column a long current untruth...
...interested in knowing why the Countess Johanna Von Mikes will not marry him. Outside Albania the situation is not understood, owing to lack of knowledge regarding Albanian marriage laws and customs. I lived in Albania-in Tirana from 1926 to 1928-and Achmet's difficulties with Shefqut Bey Elbassani were common knowledge at that time. The Countess will not marry Achmet because he is already married. This is no 'deterrent to another marriage- from his point of view. He is a Moslem...
...Albania swarthy chiefs have for years been trying to force King Zog to marry Fatima, the daughter of Shefquti Bey and "one of us!" Last year 23 Albanians, who had been urging the charms of Fatima with weapons were seized by order of His Majesty and immediately sentenced to death, but most Albanians still think Zog should marry Fatima...
Read the Putsch Pasha's communique: "His Majesty the King Has requested me to discharge the present Government and form another Ministry under Hikmat Bey Suleiman [a creature of the Pasha's] . . . our Movement has no object except realization of the happiness of the people . . . our mission is the will of the King...