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...signing in Vienna last May a manifesto protesting against the regime of Ahmed Bey Zogu, President of Albania, Bishop Fan Stylian Noli and eight of his confederates were sentenced to death in absence, which means that if they ever set foot in Albania while President Zogu is in control they will in all likelihood be summarily executed...
...Noli '12, Harvard graduate, author, translator, orthodox priest, bishop, liberal, and former premier of Albania, has been sentenced to death. This sentence has been given him and eight of his compatriots for recently signing a manifesto protesting against the regime of Ahmed Zogu, who executed a coup d'etat in December, 1924, ousting Fan Noli from the Presidency. The sentences were by default, however, since all of the condemned men are living abroad...
...Noli has been prominent in Albanian political affairs for a number of years. He has the honor of being the first Albanian delegate to the League of Nations. In addition to his political work he has translated Longfellow and Shakespeare into the native dialect...
...Tirana, capital of Albania (a small country on the Adriatic Sea, sandwiched between Jugoslavia and Greece), was informed by the Government of Ahmed Bey Zogu, President of Albania, that Port San Giovanni di Medua, on the northwestern coast, will be re- named Port Wilson, as promised by Bishop Fan Noli, onetime (1924) Prime Minister, in recognition of Woodrow Wilson's part in consolidating the independence of Albania...
Such men are those Harvard graduates who have returned to China to lead a great national movement against the policies of American and foreign financiers and concessionaires. With them should be classed such a modern Marco Polo as Fan Noli '12 that strange Bishop, General, ex-Premier, soldier of fortune and scholar of Albania. Yesterday's Associated Press dispatches carry the news that he has originated and signed a Bolshevist manifesto, which may embroil the Balkans in one of their periodic convulsions. But what is seldom mentioned in such dispatches is the fact that he has for more than...