Office of the Historian

875.01/279: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Albania (Hart)

[Paraphrase]
Washington, September 5, 1928—6 p.m.

30. Your telegram No. 56 received September 4. The Department is in receipt of a note dated Boston, September 3, from the Albanian Minister at Washington, Faïk Konitza, as follows:5

“Acting on instructions from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Tirana, I have the honor to bring to your knowledge that the Constitutional Convention has unanimously voted the restoration of the monarchy in Albania and subsequently has elected, on September the 1st, 1928, President Zogu as King of the Albanians.”

You will please ascertain and cable a report of the action so far taken or planned by the Governments of your colleagues in connection with recognizing the new regime in Albania.

Clark
  1. Quotation not paraphrased.↩