ALBANIAN BRIDGEHEAD
SIGNIFICANCE OF ITALIAN SEIZURE. To be optimistic at this moment is a proof either of ignorance or cow-, ardice, writes Mr Harold Nicolson, M.P. The rape of Albania gives to Italy a fortified base at Valona and the keys of the Adriatic. Once established in the country, Italy will be only twenty-four miles from Janina (the centre of Albanian irredentism) only thirty miles from Cettinje (the centre of Montenegrin unrest), only forty miles from Uskub (the one-time centre of Macedonian revolution), and little more than one hundred miles from Salonika. Who in his senses could fail to feel disturbed by such an occurrence? Yet behind it all is the grave damage to confidence. It is not so much that Signor Mussolini has broken the Anglo-Italian, agreement; it is that we- cannot again give faith to any of his assurances. Diplomacy, in such conditions, becomes unworkable.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1939, Page 4
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