ALBANIA: Blood Feuds

No ordinary murderer but the ferocious, scowling Alcibiade Bebe, who last year assassinated a brother-in-law of smart little King Ahmed Zogu of Albania, finally came to trial last week, in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where his crime was committed.

Sensation seeking Czechs and Slovaks jammed the courtroom, thrilled by scars and scowls peculiar to the malignant face of Prisoner Bebe.

Even the Czechoslovak judge seemed uneasy in the presence of a prisoner who looked as if he might spring at any convenient throat. When cross examination began all eyes were fixed upon Bebe, ears strove to catch the answers which he made in...

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