Word: zog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regency idea was spreading. Last week King Peter of Yugoslavia was reportedly considering a regency council, on British urging. King Zog of Albania, whom nobody had urged, offered to accept one for Albania...
Married. Hassan Nachaat Pacha, 55, sporting Egyptian Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, attended by King-in-exile Zog of Albania; and Patricia Mary Pansy Priest, 23, British nursery-schoolmistress; he for the second time; in London. The bride became a Moslem last February; to wed her, Dr. Nachaat Pacha proffered his resignation as Ambassador, because under Egyptian law no diplomat may marry a foreigner...
...room mansion outside London, Albania's King Zog and his half-American Queen Geraldine held modest court but kept a sensitive ear cocked Balkanwards. Zog was dead set on going home. Said he: "Whether I'm King or not, Albania is my fatherland...
...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...