On March 26th, 1939, the secret envelope with the draft agreement of the “effective annexation” of Albania was on the desk of King Zog. In this case, the British biographer Jason Tomes writes: “King Zog stood alone for hours in his office smoking, reading and rereading the draft agreement. On that Saturday, on March 26th, 1939, Mussolini held before 200,000 people in Rome, his speech commemorating the twentieth anniversary of fascism. He called the eternal peace a disaster and ended with the words: “More guns, more planes at any cost and way; even if we have to eliminate all what we call civilized life!
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