ALBANIA: Momentous Buttons

So seemingly impregnable is the status of Albania's new King Ahmed Zogu (TIME, Sept. 10) that last week his regime was finally recognized by the country most hostile to him—Jugoslavia.

Meanwhile His Majesty pressed two momentous buttons. The first started the first daily newspaper press ever operated in Albania. The second turned on, for the first time, an electric street lighting system in the ancient Albanian capital, Tirana.

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