Office of the Historian

768.7515/10–2344: Telegram

Mr. Alexander C. Kirk, Political Adviser, Allied Force Headquarters, to the Secretary of State

Caserta, October 23, 1944—5 p.m.
[Received October 24—8:23 a.m.]

921. OSS reports that Hoxha has expressed himself as favoring southern Albanian boundary set at Conference of London in 1913.39 He takes position that Greeks in Albania should return to Greece and sees no justification for and would oppose a plebiscite in southern Albania which he contends is definitely Albanian. Hoxha further states that Albanians will fight for this territory if necessary. On other hand, Hoxha considers Kossovo40 problem can be settled only by plebiscite.

Kirk
  1. The Conference of London, by the treaty of May 30, 1913, left the boundaries of Albania for settlement by the European powers. These were actually described by decisions of the Conference of Ambassadors in London on May 22 and August 11, 1913. The delimitation of the southern Albanian boundary was completed on the scene in December 1913. For text of the Treaty of London, see British and Foreign State Papers, vol. cvii, p. 656.↩
  2. Area in southwest Yugoslavia, the present-day autonomous province of Kosovo-Metohija.↩