Rome, Apr. 16.
Premier Benito Mussolini received the Albanian delegation headed by the Albanian Premier, Verlaci, at the Palazzo Venezia yesterday. Verlaci thanked 1l Duce that he had assented to the wish of the Albanian National Assembly for the permanent union of the two nations.
In his reply Il Duce declared that a new era had begun for the Albanian nation which with equal rights entered into the imperial community of Rome.
"I promise you," Mussolini said, "that Fascist italy will give justice, order and welfare to the new Albania and you know that I keep what I promise,"—Trans-Ocean, However, informed quarters believe Japan might be more likely to heed American warnings now because Japan's strength is dissipated in China and United States public opinion is more likely to acquiesce to the use of the Fleet against Japan because of Japan's failure to keep her promises to respect American rights and interests in the Orient.
Britain's new naval base at Singapore is another factor which, ce: bined with the presence of the U. Fleet in the Pacific, may lead Japan io show restraint, it was believed.—United Press.
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