Word: fiorina
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...European countries fearing invasion almost any hour, with France and Britain only lately awake to the perils of the hour, many a man-in-the-street would agree with Albania's exiled King Zog's estimate of European conditions as given to a United Press correspondent in Fiorina, Greece: "There are in Europe two madmen who are disturbing the entire world-Hitler and Mussolini. There are in Europe two damn fools who sleep-Chamberlain and Daladier...
...approach of danger, 43-year-old King Zog loaded his 23-year-old wife and newly born son into an Albanian automobile converted into an ambulance and sent them, with escort, over a 160-mile stretch of rough road into neighboring Greece. Lodging in a primitive little inn at Fiorina, across the frontier. Her Majesty through her Hungarian grandmother, Countess D'Estrelle D'Ekna, released an appeal to the world: "I left my husband leading his troops-his poor insignificant little Army-into battle. What could Albania do against such armed might as that which ground down...