Word: zog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zog, new householder in the Zizinia district of Alexandria, had fair assurance that the neighborhood wouldn't get run down. Moving in as next-door neighbor this week was ex-King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy-the old Adriatic neighbor who had had him evicted from his Albanian house & home...
Tilda Thamar, blonde, green-eyed Argentine cinemactress, arrived in Miami to build up a little hemispheric good will, lost no time buckling down to work (see cut). Her name-around-the-house: Countess Toptani. Her husband's cousin: Albania's ex-King Zog. Among her distinctions: quadrilinguality...
...Britain, exiled King Zog I (full title: Bird the First, King of the Sons of the Eagle) received the news with hardly a quiver of his finely pointed mustache, issued a routine protest: "The King cannot consider these elections [establishing the new regime] as free. It would have been our desire, after this long and tragic period, that the people of the country should be free to re-establish the situation as they wanted...
...King Zog of Albania is at Parmoor, High Wycombe, Bucks. He plays billiards...
...Enver Hoxha, Enver Hoxha." The counting would not be completed for several days. But they knew that their future was in the hands of this 37-year-old leader who had learned French as an Albanian diplomat in Belgium, ran a flower shop to mask his activities against King Zog, led the guerrillas against the Italians and Germans...