Southern Albania: Under the Acroceraunian MountainsArgonaut, 1968 - 163 էջ |
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Էջ 60 - Within six months from the date of the present Declaration, detailed information will be presented to the Council of the League of Nations with regard to the legal status of the religious communities, Churches, Convents, schools, voluntary establishments and associations of racial, religious and linguistic minorities. The Albanian Government will take into consideration any advice it might receive from the League of Nations with regard to this question.
Էջ 47 - Congress, pp. 4-5. [80] order; to this request Greece consented when Italian acquiescence was obtained. Under the auspices of Great Britain, an agreement was come to under which Italy would occupy Valona and Greece Northern Epirus, the duty of pronouncing definitely as to these occupations being left to the Peace Congress. But it was tacitly understood that if, at the time of the general peace, the occupation of Valona by Italy was confirmed, that of Northern Epirus by Greece would become equally...
Էջ 56 - ... State?" The author of this book seems ignorant of the nature of this whole correspondence when he calls the tentative proposals therein made, "decisions." He seems quite unconvinced by the words addressed by the British Foreign Office in September 1921 to the Greek Legation in London, which he quotes : "They held that the decision of January 1920, 'if decision it can be called, was only an agreement on the part of the other Powers to accept the Venizelos-Tittoni arrangement of July 1919. This...
Էջ 28 - I know very well your valour and your manliness. I have great need of you. Come then, I pray you, as soon as you receive this message. Get all your valorous men with you, and come that we may go and crush my foes. This is the time when I need your friendship. Now you can show how much love and friendship you have for me. Your pay will be double that which I give the Albanians, because I know your bravery is much greater than that of the Albanians. I will not undertake to make the war without you....
Էջ 29 - So long as I am imprisoned here," replied Tjavella, " never hope to possess Souli. But if you release me you may hope to seize it." " And how shall I trust you ? " asked Ali. " You have my only son in your hands. My son, Photos, is the dearest part of my soul.
Էջ 44 - What was the use of a Commission whose decisions were guided by the claims of two of its members ? I cannot understand what prompted Sir Edward Grey to propose that frontier. Was it merely to pacify Italy ? Or did he think that Greece had more than enough territory ? That would be all very well if it were in an African desert.
Էջ 30 - you know very well how many evils the infidel Greeks have brought upon us ; how many towns and villages they have taken away from us ; how many lands they have snatched away from our possession. If to-day we leave them alive, they will gradually dare to seize our homes and capture our wives and children.
Էջ 57 - ... This mistake of assuming that the Correspondence on the Adriatic question of December 1919 and January 1920 was in the nature of binding decisions, is one that is frequently made by Greek and pro-Greek (or anti-Albanian) writers. Vide especially Baerlein, Under the Acroceraunian Mountains, pp. 55-58: "It will be asked why the Ambassadors' Conference acted as it did in 1921. Perhaps the decision of 1920 was considered to have lapsed on account of the non-fulfillment of the clauses regarding Fiume....
Էջ 44 - I maintain that the Albanian clans have not arrived at a degree of social evolution permitting them to form even a conception of a Constitutional State. They do not possess the qualities needful for creating and administering one, and I assert that the Greeks of Epirus do possess such qualities.
Էջ 31 - Pasha's followers rushed with unsheathed swords and swore by the Prophet not to return until Souli was captured. The battle raged for hours without decision. Suddenly there was a lull towards the latter part of the afternoon. Both sides were exhausted by their fighting all the forenoon under a hot July sun. Then the women of Souli, thinking that the Greeks had been destroyed, came together to consider what to do. " Sisters, the battle is at an end," cried Moscho, the wife of Tjavella.