Word: zogu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Calmer Hart, U. S. Minister at Tirana, capital of Albania (a small country on the Adriatic Sea, sandwiched between Jugoslavia and Greece), was informed by the Government of Ahmed Bey Zogu, President of Albania, that Port San Giovanni di Medua, on the northwestern coast, will be re- named Port Wilson, as promised by Bishop Fan Noli, onetime (1924) Prime Minister, in recognition of Woodrow Wilson's part in consolidating the independence of Albania...
...representatives of the five Powers and six smaller nations comprising the Council of the League of Nations* assembled at Geneva last week for their regular quarterly meeting, they found that a document pregnant with international discord had been filed with the League by order of President-Dictator Ahmed Bey Zogu of Albania...
Because Italy holds a virtual protectorate over Albania, the note of Dictator Zogu received the respect appropriate to a communication undoubtedly approved if not ordered written by Italian Dictator Mussolini. It declared that the national honor of Albania had been insulted by "brutal and unconciliatory demands" made upon Albania by Jugoslavia, recently, to obtain the release of a Jugoslav spy arrested and jailed in Albania...
Such action pertinently suggested that Jugoslavia, after breaking off relations with Albania, would shortly declare war. The Albanian note to the League Council last week was therefore in the nature of a national alibi, registered with the League, so that, if war breaks out, Dictator Ahmed Bey Zogu of Albania may disclaim all responsibility before the world...
This much is certain, that Ahmed Bey Zogu is no mere young adventurer in the pay or under the dominant spell of Dictator Mussolini. His tribal family is among the most ancient in Albania, and its wild, remote highland strongholds between Tirana and Scutari are probably impregnable to an army not especially equipped for mountaineering. There Ahmed Bey Zogu is not so much President of Albania as Chief of the Mati tribes...