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Word from King Zog. Since 1948, about 500 Albanians have escaped into Yugoslavia, many of whom have found haven in Titograd, the new provincial capital the Montenegrins are building on the ruins of Podgorica, which was razed by British bombers in World War II. Sipping thick Turkish coffee in a Titograd café last week, one of the refugees, a country storekeeper, said: "Police came to me and demanded 2,000,000 lek [$4,000]. I told him I didn't have it. They sent me to jail in Scutari. They chained my arms together underneath my knees...
...constantly striving by peaceful means to achieve peace throughout the world . . . situations from the age-old Fight for Freedom were selected in consultation with eminent historians. Details have been established as historically correct by a University research expert." Wheaties' fighters for freedom, in chronological order, are Zog, the stone age man, (fighting Rip, the sabre-toothed tiger), Arminius the German king, (fighting Varus, the Roman General), Joan of Arc, and Ethan Allen. Joan of Arc is portrayed mounted; she comes on one box, the horse on another. "Get Joan of Arc," the text urges, "mount her on her horse. Then...
...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...