The Anglo-American Threat to Albania

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ENVER HOXHA
The Anglo - American
Threat
to Albania
Memoirs
of the National Liberation War
THE INSTITUTE OF MARXIST-LENINIST STUDIES
AT THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE PARTY
OF LABOUR OF ALBANIA
THE «8 NËNTORI» PUBLISHING HOUSE
TIRANA 1982

«THE ANGLO-AMERICAN THREAT TO ALBANIA»
is another book in the series of Comrade Enver Hoxha's
memoirs from the time of the National Liberation War.
It reflects events he lived through, his personal
impressions, and gives conclusions, which provide
lessons for all periods, drawn from the hostile activity
carried out openly or behind the scenes, against our
National Liberation Movement, our people's revolution
and socialist Albania by the Anglo-American bourgeoisie.
It brings out clearly the clash between the diabolical
plans, attempts, manoeuvres and concrete activities of
Anglo-American imperialism to put Albania under its
sway, on the one hand, and the vigilance, the blow for
blow struggle of the Communist Party of Albania and
its General Secretary, the leader of the Army and the
National Liberation Front and the whole patriotic Alba
nian people, Comrade Enver Hoxha, on the other hand,
to discover, unmask, defeat and destroy the imperialist
strategy and tactics in regard to Albania.
These memoirs now being published, were written
in 1975.
The book is available in Albanian and several
foreign languages.
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I
A LITTLE HISTORY
Albania — a token for barter for the «Brit-
ish Lion». Disraeli and Bismarck: «We are not
interested in a few Albanian cottages.» Zog —
the «open-door» policy. Chamberlain and the
fascist occupation of Albania. The anti-fascist
coalition. Vigilance of the CPA. Intelligence
Service prepares its contingents for Albania.
Section D and the SOE. Alarm in London.
New plans, old aims.
Both the imperial governments of Great
Britain of past centuries and its royal governments
in recent years have always been hostile to the
Albanian people. The Tories and the different
political currents that kept the Empire going, and
the two parties, the Tory Party and the Labour
Party, which have taken turns in running the
country more recently, have always regarded
Albania as a token for barter in their countless
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deals with the other great powers to maintain
the world hegemony of the «British Lion».
Like many other countries, Albania has not
been recognized by any of those different British
governments which have safeguarded the domi
nation of British capital over the peoples and the
world, as a state and a country which, through
innumerable efforts and sacrifices through the
centuries, have fought against various invaders,
to be free and sovereign, but on the contrary, the
inhabitants of this «Land of the Eagles» have been
considered a savage, barbarous people, without
culture, at a time when, despite their small num
bers, these people have been indomitable and no
less cultured than the people of Scotland or
Cornwall.
It took a long time before a few publicists,
some occasional amateur scholar or great poet
of the romantic era, such as Byron, spread a little
light among the British people about Albania and
the Albanians, about their culture, their strong
and generous character, their hospitality and
kindness towards friends, as well as about the
stern, unyielding fighting spirit in the face of
many savage enemies which has always characte
rized them.
The enslaving imperialist colonial policy of
Britain prevailed over many countries and peo
ples. Britain engaged in a thousand and one mano-
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