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Feverish rumors continued last week that Albania, backed by Italy, is preparing war on Jugoslavia. Famed Croatian Jugoslav leader Stefan Raditch even went so far last week as to exclaim: "We are not afraid of the Italian Colossus with feet of clay, nor of its puppet-pawn, Albania. . . . We are against war, but if the Italians want to fight we will fling them into the Adriatic...
Correspondent Larry Rue spent an entire week covering the Albania-Jugoslav frontier from Greece to the Adriatic for the Chicago Tribune. His motor car, he cabled, was the first through the mile- high, snow-covered uplands since December. A broken connecting rod meant getting another car, and friendly peasants shoveled much snow and pushed often and mightily. "I visited every garrison, outpost and supply depot," cabled thoroughgoing Correspondent Rue, concluding that in his opinion the Jugoslavs were emphatically not mobilized last week...
Since Jugoslavia is adjacent to the spur-wheel, ready to be prodded, it was the Jugoslav press of Belgrade which set up a cry last week that Italian officers in Albania are directing mobilization against Jugoslavia and hurrying the building of strategic roads. This charge was repeated by the Parisian press, for France and Jugoslavia are allies. Then King Alexander of Jugoslavia added to the war scare excitement...
...week with the supposedly defunct Montenegrin question, permitted Fascist editors to slap into bold type a manifesto blazoned at Rome by the Royalist Montenegrin Committee for National Defense. The Committee, a dwindling palace clique, called upon Montenegrins to rise against Jugoslavia* and restore King (Pretender) Michael of Montenegro. The Jugoslav press, just now hypersensitive to Italian war scares, grew promptly flurried lest Il Duce follow up his Albanian treaty thrust into the Balkans (TIME, Dec. 13) by trying to restore the independence and throne of Montenegro...
Nelson O'Shaughnessy, jolly Manhattanite, who once played tennis with the German Crown Prince, who was a popular chargé d'affaires in Mexico during the vexations of President Wilson's first administration, who speaks five languages, who is now negotiating loans with the Jugoslav Government for Blair & Co. of Manhattan, is something of an imperialist. Last week he paused on a holiday in Vienna to say: "It is only a question of time when we will have to invade Mexico to call a definite halt on its trouble making-propensities. We might as well face...