Fan Noli, Harvard Graduate, Has Been Tempestuous Force in Albanian Politics--Danger Yet Lurks Under Scrivener's Hood

Again the Balkans rumble and war is talked of as thousands of Albanian tribesmen are rushed to the frontier. And behind the ever thickened screen of mystery which envelopes the small mountainous country of Albania sits Fan Stylian Noli '12. Harvard graduate, author, translator, orthodox priest, bishop, Premier of Albania and liberal, this flery patrial keeps his adversary. Ashmet Zogu president of Albania pale and nervous by his constant infrignes. Well enough does Zogu recollect the day in 1924 and 1925 when he himself was a refugee hiding in the fastness of the Albanian mountains waiting his chance to strike. Finally it came, and crossing the frontier at the head of an army composed of Mohammedan tribesmen and Jugo-Slavian soldiers he defeated Fan Noli and his hastily gathered army, and entered Tirana, the capital as prime minister.

Although Fan Noli has not been in prominence for the last few months all Albania realizes that he has been the directing force behind the latest international complication. The last that the outside world has seen of him was immediately after his evaenation of Albania with a colene of ministers and as the dispach said "a lot of money" He soon took up quarters in Vienna in an artic where he continued his work of translating classics into Albanian Anyone acquainted with the difficulty involved in such a work will appreciate the task he has undertaken. He had already translated Longfellow and Shakespeare into the native dialect and working on others English classics.

Albania is a country of grim politics, sudden tribal uprisings, secret murders, and foreign intrigues. No man was even better suited to such an environment than Fan Noli and those interested it Albanian politics will be sure to heat from him soon again.