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After five years of Italian and German occupation, Tirana, the Albanian capital, was mostly intact, though the retreating Germans had wrecked the British Legation. From the U.S. Legation, they took only the caretaker's guitar...
...wild mountains behind Tirana, baggy-trousered clansmen gathered last week, 80,000 strong, knives in their sashes, rifles across their backs. In the villages a restive folk hanged Benito Mussolini in effigy. Schoolboys ran off to the hills to join the guerrillas. Fearful Italian troops clapped hundreds in jail, closed the schools, imposed curfews on the villages. Like the rest of subjugated Europe, the smallest Balkan nation was girding for liberation...
...people whose "nationalism does not whisper because their country is small," the Albanians had never accepted the Fascist conquest of 1939. Now patriot resistance, fanned by new hope, was mounting. It could be measured by Rome's frantic hunt for a popular puppet leader. For Prime Minister in Tirana Mussolini chose tricky, turncoat Ekrem Libohova, once ex-King Zog's Foreign Minister. This was Albania's fourth "government...
King Zog of Albania, exiled in London, begged to differ with the Italian puppet government in Tirana, declared Albania was not at war with the U.S. but with Italy...
Fortnight ago the Axis learned a lesson in the possible dangers of Balkan partitioning. On a tour of the Albanian battlefields went Italy's and Albania's little 71-year-old King Vittorio Emanuele III. While he was motoring toward the Tirana airport with Albanian Premier Shefket Verlaci, a 19-year-old Greek named Vasil Laci Mihailoff fired four wild pistol shots at the King's car. On Mihailoff's person the police later found "futuristic poems" dealing with "love and hatred among farm animals." The Italians promptly dubbed Mihailoff a "poetic maniac" and further claimed...