ALBANIA’S INGRATITUDE

Evening Star, Issue 25939, 2 November 1946, Page 7

ALBANIA’S INGRATITUDE

BRITAIN’S AID DURING WAR FORGOTTEN NEW YORK, November 1. Mr Philip Noel-Baker (Britain) in the United Nations Assembly said that Albania’s complaints that British warships in Albanian waters had threatened international peace were not substantiated. Albania alleged in two Notes to the United Nations that four British warships on October 22 entered Albanian waters around Sarantia, Kakomes, and Borsi without Albanian permission, thereby threatening international relations. Mr Noel-Baker commented: “ I wonder how lorig it would have been before Albania had been liberated from Fascist rule if the British forces, which Albania now treats as hostile, had not stood alone against the Axis. I should have thought that, putting all other considerations aside, Albania would have been most eager to welcome in any way any member of the British armed forces instead of talking about provocative incursions and violations of territorial waters. “ I note that the Albanian Government is most careful not to suggest that there should be. any impartial international inquiry into its unsubstantiated allegations. This does not surprise me, but T confess that it leaves me wondering why.”