765.75/527: Telegram
The Ambassador in Italy (Phillips) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 27—3:12 p.m.]
159. I have received from the Minister for Foreign Affairs a note dated yesterday informing me, and requesting me to inform my Government, [Page 411] that pursuant to the vote of the Albanian National Constituent Assembly on April 12 and the resolution adopted by the Grand Counsel of Fascism on the day following “His Majesty the King and Emperor has been pleased to accept the Crown of Albania for himself and for his royal successors”; that he “assumes for himself and his successors the title of King of Italy and of Albania, Emperor of Ethiopia” and that he “will be represented in Albania by a Lieutenant General who will reside in Tirana” as provided by law, approved by the Senate and Chamber on April 15.
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