The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-12-20
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON

lions assembly was in session, on a
sunny afternoon, with every garde-
mia in place
oPuto' Z ondtddte on the lapel
For Free Albania of its morn
Modern Jeremiah ing coat with
d G corouS
murmurs mingling with the bird
song and the hum of the bees, heard
through the open windows. The i'm
peccable and somewhat desiccated
Sir Eric Drummond, who played
closer to his immaculate white vest
than any living man, was presiding
watchfully against any untoward
procedure, any solecism, any break
in syntax or punctilio, or move to-
ward any overt suggestion or act.
There arose among the dele
gates a great, shaggy bearded
man who started the windows
rafting with his booming voice.
He said: "YOu are just blowing
bubbles. Your talk is hot air.
You have done and will do moth
ing for peace. You know that
the Dawes plan is doomed. You
know that all treaties are des-
tined for the waste basket"
1t was long, masterful and pun
fishing philippe, delivered in a fin
lshed Harvard accent. Sir Eric was
almost hospital case.
The Jeremiah was Bishop Fan
Stylian Noli, of the Albanian Ortho-
dox church, and it is Bishop Noli,
now supposedly living in Boston,
who is named in a London cable
to the New York Sun, as the popu-
lar candidate for a liberated Alba
mia. With the aid of the Greeks,
the hope Of Albanian liberation is
warming up daily, here and abroad.
The huge, ruddy warrior bishop, a
medieval man with modern ideas,
never has been caught in the feudal
tensions and confusion of Balkan
politics. He is genuine libertarian
and democrat, recruiting Moslems
as well as Christians in his long
running fight for modern free state
hood for his country. His League
OF Nations speech was shushed in
Europe, but all of it finally filtered
through to American newspapers. 1t
was the voice Of a major prophet,
as startling as the little Pickering
cinema spot on the walls of Belshaz-
zar's palace.
If the bishop should reclaim and
redeem Albania, America would get
an assist, if not put-out. He was
educated at Harvard university, en-
tering in 1908 and finishing in 1912. In
the former year, the peaceful re-
Hgious revolution by which the mod
ern Orthodox Albanian church was
established was just getting under
way, and it was in that year, that
he was invested with the robes of
its priesthood.
got glimpse of the bishop
in the Commodore hotel In 1881,
q keen-eyed, black-bearded gi-
ant, purpOseful, alert and power
ful In every aspect Of his face
and person. He had arrived Just
a Jump ahead Of certain dissi-
dent Albanian gunner. On this
and many other occasions, he
blasted Albania's dude monarch,
Ahmed Z0g much as he had
blasted the tit;tat-toe assembly
OF the league. But he changed
hotels frequently and mysteri-
ously, as for many years. he has
had death close on his heels.
And II was In 1881 that he said
that Premier MuSsolini would
snatch Albania when he got
ready, and that Zog's govern
ment was all make-beIieve.
CIR PHILIP B. JOUBERT DE LA
- FERTE, British air marshal,
has had long and distinguished ca
reer in the army, and in all these
Sir Philips Slip been ' a ne no %sI
Gets Approval of of discretion
u. S. NeUshOunds and impecca-
BILE official be-
havior. Hence it was a most ex-
traordinary slip when he broadcast
to the world details of where Ger
man bombs had fallen. The min
istry Of information, of which Sir
Philip is a member, had been
clamping down the censorship lid
and British papers were printing
German communicates, as the only
news available. American newspa.
per men, sharply at odds with the
censorship about getting news from
Germany, are acclaiming Sir Philip
for a tumble which they think was
in the public interest. It seems to
be his first tumble.
AS a fier in the World war, he
gathered both British and Italian
decorations and was mentioned in
dispatches six times. He joined the
royal field artillery in 1907 and
transferred to the royal flying corps
in 1913.
He was in France in first two years
of the war and in Egypt in 1919
and 1917. After the war he was
r. A. +. instructor at the imperial
defense college and commanded the
r. A. F. staff college in 1890 and
1884 He was given command of the
r. A. F. in 1887. He was educated al
HarrotU q nd Woo1vgich