A STRATEGIC STROKE
ITALY SECURES ALBANIA. “The process is like slipping down an ever steepening slope,” points out the Sunday Times, “and unless we stick our heels in somewhere there can be only one end to the story. The strategic advantages which the axis will get out of an annexed Albania can be stated alike in naval, military and air terms. Naturally it goes far to render possible a closing of the Adriatic, which can be used to bottle up Jugoslavia and to provide a large scale base for submarine and other naval operations against ships traversing the Mediterranean. Militarily it gives Italy long frontiers with Greece and Jugoslavia, available to intimidate both countries. Aerially it offers improved facilities for bombing every capital in the Balkans. Yet in a sense, the episode is helpful. It has shown us where we stand, and where Signor Mussolini stands.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 58, Issue 4192, 2 June 1939, Page 7
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