All of a pother were the Balkans last week because Premier Benito Mussolini was said to be forcing upon Albania's King Zog a customs union with Italy, threatening that unless His Majesty does as directed he will lose his fat subsidy from the Italian treasury.
In Paris all customs unions are viewed with alarm because the French Government is strenuously exerting itself to keep Germany and Austria from forming one and wants no bad examples set elsewhere. "Let us hope and trust," frowned Parisian Pundit Andre Geraud ("Pertinax"), "that Mussolini and his councillors...
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