Follows from the previous 17 STATEMENT OF COLLECTED FROM OTHER CHARLES TELFORD Erikson for Albania and Albanians ( 41-57 ) 41 If I wanted to escape from America in search of a shelter that was so far from civilization , of abandoning all pleasures , soft tapestry of life , the life that knows no hunger , cold , lack of clothing and basic needs of life , I could not do something better than the solution Albania , taken as a whole . 42 Albania itself deserves a very special honor for his contribution both to populate heaven with her people honest , beautiful and innocent . 43 Often a word for tragedy , a question , a look , a hand coercion , constitute the universal language of their hearts and sweeter than anything human . 44 She has inspired me more to write this book is exactly tracing of blood flow to the Albanian race since the beginning of its history until today , when the Turkish Empire was destroyed and made its European holdings . 45 There is unrest in the Balkans that have simple local origin or nature . Always one or more of the powers of Europe have had a hand in it even to the point that I have created himself, by developing , directing , financing it , until the moment when it erupts and the world outside of throw its hands in horror over what the bloody Balkan drum is fabricated . 46 The final determination of boundaries was a compromise . Monastir vilayets of Kosovo and Albania with a population three quarters of a million were given to Serbia . All this land was Albanian . It was a broad plateau of valuable agricultural and possessed Albania . Not only dispossessed Albanians and put them under a government that had already committed the crime of extermination against them , but left thousands of others on the Albanians , all as prisoners in their mountain strongholds , without meadows for cattle , without their corn fields for much needed and no residential areas or cities where they will be circulated and traded their products . 47 Balkan Wars had mutilated the body of the nation and the wounds were diluted blood . Refugees from separate parts of the nation , homeless and hungry , had come . Excelled in their eyes that had seen terror and horror seen in thousands of their lips . Moreover , wound border are grrithej and kripej every day with new ferocity . In the north , east and south . While the months pass . During the spring the fields were plowed with rifles and bayonets of the invading armies of grain and seeds was taken to feed the animals invading army . 48 After more than nineteen years , during which I have made attempt , as a friend of that country so dear to me , but almost without any friends , I still think of those words of the American President , Wilson , which at that time came as the sweetest words I ever heard . 49 These versatile Albanian highlands fell upon it from outside and from within the siege , with their cries and songs of battles , making their enemies ran afford received as they did a thousand times led by its distinguished sons such as Skanderbeg , Pyrrhus , Alexander the Great , Philip of Macedonia , not to mention those of the Trojan War . 50 Finally , for a small country like Albania and helpless , I would seek to avoid at any price , any obstacle political , commercial , financial or economic life that threatens to compromise the free and independent and state functions . Furthermore , I will persistently cultivate friendship with the great powers , having no personal interest and no selfish to promote themselves . These are for me some of the most important tasks and requirements clearer facing New Albanian government . 51 Over thirty years of work and life in Albania , I m trying to instill pride in these people for what they are , what are their race or ethnic origin , for what they have achieved in their history . 52 These mountains of Albania to step up these highlands have created man longer, more handsome husband and guximëshimin most of Europe , but that is temporary and paprtimas completely neglected . 53 Thanks very much resistance to their centuries under foreign yoke , and not just on one occasion but on many, many occasions for many individuals , they have shown and are taught to be patient and consistent , and under the yoke of stand firm in their isolation lonely soul , as immutable as the mountains themselves and their country . 54 What worries me is that to what extent will harm the spirit of the Albanians of Italys occupation of Albania . Is this a concern quite different from the one I have for Italy . And this is not to reduce the value to be set to one or the other. 55 Over thirty years of my contacts and intimate knowledge of these people , I knew I could not cure an Albanian who was the victim of harassment , mental depression , nerve disease , or anything else of that nature . 56 But as regards Kosovo Vilayet , also seen by racial and historically , there can be no doubt in the mind of a scholar and impartial Albanian claims have incredible support . He Wilayah is joining its territory Albanian , will almost double its arable land and seventy -five the percentage increase its population . 57 I believe and I think that the secret of Albanias future rests herself . Time is not as important to them . One year , a century , a millennium , has not become even a single line of their faces, and neither has disturbed the foundations of its mountainous land . conclusion : Eriksoni came as a missionary in Albania , turned educator , was transformed into a politician , acted as a diplomat , urged oil fields as engineering geologist , wrote the historian , philosopher meditated , inspired as a patriot and escaped as the most beloved of Albania . END
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