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...Passion. Though Albania may lack roads, she should never lack for royal palaces. Last week Italian workmen and engineers, sent by King Zog's patron and protector, Dictator Mussolini, laid the foundations of a new royal palace, Zog's fifth, outside the grimy old capital city of Tirana. The building will cost more than one million dollars. His passion for mansions still unappeased, King Zog planned still a sixth palace in the ancient town of Kruga, home of Albania's 15th Century hero king, Scanderbeg the Great. Albanians recalled that at the time of King...
Another U. S. institution in Albania is the Tirana industrial school sponsored by the Junior American Red Cross. To aid this school, grateful King Zog last week presented 650 acres of land to U. S. Minister Charles Calmer Hart...
Another reform of King Ahmed Zogu has been to encourage Greek Orthodox prelates among his subjects to proclaim at Tirana a new Holy Synod of Albania, with Archbishop Bessario Javani as its President. In Constantinople the Most Holy Patriarch Basil of the Greek Orthodox Church was incensed, last week, to the point of anathematizing the new Albanian Synod. Soon he unfrocked with awful and pious curses both Albanian Archbishop Javani and his ecclesiastical accomplice the Archimandrite Tjamzi of Berat...
Despatches from the Albanian capital of Tirana, last week, extravagantly rumored that over 300 minor and major blood feuds are now pending against well guarded King Ahmed Zogu. It was also rumored that the Sovereign had broken off the engagement which has bound him since childhood to wed Lela, luscious 23-year-old daughter of the great Albanian tribal chieftain Shevket Bey Verlatzi. Such a jilt, if actually perpetrated, can scarcely fail to engender another deadly blood feud...
Meanwhile His Majesty pressed two momentous buttons. The first started the first daily newspaper press ever operated in Albania. The second turned on, for the first time, an electric street lighting system in the ancient Albanian capital, Tirana...