Abstract

The Albanian Peril

The Pact of Tirana set the seal on the work so carefully accomplished by Italian agents in Albania. At the present time Italy, through her control of the Albanian National Bank and the Albanian Development Co., which has the sole right to build roads and to construct railways, has made Albania and her mineral wealth a close economic preserve for herself, by her right to reorganize the army, to construct an Albanian navy, and to build harbors she has not only secured the control of new naval bases which would prove invaluable in corking up the Jugoslav navy in time of war, but has established herself in Albania in a way which is a threat to Jugoslavia very much as the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary was a threat to old Serbia.