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Birthday. Ahmed Bey Zogu I, King of the Albanians. Date: Oct. 8. Age: 35. Celebration: listening to the roar of 55 Italian warplanes which zoomed down to Tirana to bring a greeting card from Prime Minister Mussolini while a squadron of British destroyers fired a 21-gun salute in the harbor 20 mi. away...
Ahmed Bey Zogu (Zog I) celebrated his first anniversary as King of Albania...
Dead Bird. Railways, roads, steamships and sewers are signs of civilization, but they cost money. Last week, swart Ahmed Bey Zogu Mati, King of Albania, made an effective yet inexpensive gesture toward westernizing his troubled kingdom by decreeing that in future all of his subjects must give up the old Mohammedan custom of taking the name of the town or village in which they live, and adopt good European names. Setting the fashion, Albania's King dropped the village name of Mati, dropped the u from Zogu (u in Albanian means "bird") and adopted the simple, resounding title...
Squiggle, loop, scratch went the fountain pen of a swart little Dictator-King Ahmed Zogu, last week, signing out the old Islamic law of Albania, signing in a new civil code based on the Swiss...
Another reform of King Ahmed Zogu has been to encourage Greek Orthodox prelates among his subjects to proclaim at Tirana a new Holy Synod of Albania, with Archbishop Bessario Javani as its President. In Constantinople the Most Holy Patriarch Basil of the Greek Orthodox Church was incensed, last week, to the point of anathematizing the new Albanian Synod. Soon he unfrocked with awful and pious curses both Albanian Archbishop Javani and his ecclesiastical accomplice the Archimandrite Tjamzi of Berat...