Word: zog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industries, no railroads, precious little natural wealth, Albania could not plausibly be pictured as a menace to powerful Fascist Italy, but some attempt was made to do so. Even more ludicrous were the Fascist press claims that: 1) Italians were showing their undying love for the Albanians; 2) King Zog, heretofore an unusually obliging Italian puppet, had recently shown ingratitude; 3) King Zog had been hoarding Italian loans meant to develop the country for his own private uses; 4) Prominent Albanians had pleaded with Dictator Mussolini to come over and straighten things out. Of all the Italian explanations, the best...
With Aggressors Hitler and Mussolini still at large, with the small 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...
...hours before dawn, the boom of a gun broke the almost rural silence of Tirana, the small capital perched in the mountains of the tiny Kingdom of Albania. Boom followed boom until 101 had shaken the sleeping town. A son and heir had just been born to King Zog I and his Hungarian-American consort, Queen Geraldine. The man-child was named Skander after the great Albanian patriot who in the 15th Century stood off the Turks during some 30 years of hard fighting...
Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who was best man at Zog's wedding last year, arrived to form a "provisional Albanian Government" and II Duce, as quickly as he could spare the time from his Palazzo Venezia desk, was scheduled to announce in Tirana just what he intended to do with his new possession. Best guess was that it would become a protectorate under the sovereignty of His Imperial Majesty King Vittorio Emmanuele III of Italy...
Flight. Meanwhile, at the first 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...