ed, who believed
that this affair had been arranged by the Italians were wrong.

As for Bib Doda's fortune, Mr. Goad asserts that by Albanian law he did
not have to leave it to his nearest kinsman, Marko Djoni. That is, I beg
to say, precisely what he had to do according to the custom of their
ancient family. Mr. Goad says that the cash went to the poor; I say that
a good deal of it went into the pocket of a lady who was much younger
than the dead man and was on excellent terms with an Italian major. If
Mr. Goad had visited Albania at that time and had been interested in
other things besides what he tells us of--the moonlight of Klisura and
the splendid plane trees over the Vouissa and the sunrise reflected on
the gleaming mountain-wall of the Nemorica--I would not have to tell him
all this about Bib Doda's money. He says that Marko Djoni is a
discredited, disgruntled person who became a tool of the Serbs and fled
to Serbia. But he forgets that Bib Doda was killed in March 1919, and
that until May 1921 Marko Djoni remained in Albania, enjoying the
friendship of Italy rather than that of Serbia. In fact it was not easy
for him to abandon this friendship, owing to various deals in connection
with the Mirdite forests. No doubt he resented the loss of his heritage;
but why in the name of goodness should not he and his followers fight
for their liberty, and why should the Serbs not help them at a time when
the frontiers of Albania had not been fixed nor the Government
officially recognized? The Serbs were helping him to make war, says Mr.
Goad, against his legitimate rulers. Yet we must be lenient with our Mr.
Goad, for he himself admits that "few can write of Balkan politics
without revealing symptoms of that partisan disease." He has made up his
mind that the Serbs are the villains of the piece, and there, for him,
is the end of it.

A delegation from the Mirditi, consisting of the Rev. Professor Anthony
Achikou and Captain Dod Lleche, came to Geneva in October 1921, and
requested the League not to issue a confirmation of the Tirana
Government. They showed that this Government had no other aim than to
turn Albania into a small Turkey. No doubt the Moslems, as the most
numerous element, had a right to have a majority in the Cabinet, but
there was no justification in their appointment of pure Turks. (The
Tirana Government proposed in the autumn of 1921 that any Albanian
coming from Turkey, who has held a public office there