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Archives West Finding Aid

Box/Folder1/1Albania - Foreign Politics: Independence Concerns (in English)

Pandele, Anastas. An Appeal to the Government and People of America by the Albanian Federation of America, Vatra. 1919.

Erickson, C. Telford. Moral Leadership in World Reconstruction. Congress Hall Hotel, Washington, D.C., 1919.

Erickson, C. Telford. Cutting the Gorgon Knot. Congress Hall Hotel, Washington, D.C., 1919.

19191/2Albania - Foreign Politics: Territory Questions (in French)

Mexi, Hristo. Mémorandum à l'usage de monsieur le président et de messieurs les membres de la Conférence de la paix: ainsi qu'á celui des commissions accessoires. Bucarest: Institut d'arts graphyques "Speranta", 1919. (Relativement aux droits de revendication des Albanais originaires des territoires restés en dehors des frontières détérminées par les Conférences de Londres et de Florence en 1913 à l'occasion de la création de l'état Albanais.)

19191/3Armenia - Atrocities Alleged: Against Turkey (in English)

Eyewitness Report upon the Armenian Situation and Massacres of 1904. Barton, James L. 1904. (extremely fragile; The following extracts are taken from communications received by James L. Barton, Secretary of

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Today’s tale picks up 18th November 1914. The setting Shimber Berris, the tallest mountain in the African state of Somaliland. The Kharif, “a hot labouring wind heavy with sand” was in full force, but up in the hills that day the air was quite pleasant… Actually, a slight correction, the air was heavy with waves of red hot bullets flying in around head height. While this kind of weather isn’t to everyone’s tastes – to one man this was paradise. On this day, with little more than a few shrubs for cover, a group of British soldiers stealthily ascended the mountain.

The British had Somaliland in their sights from around 1899. The scramble for Africa was well on, and Somaliland was desirable solely because one could attack ships travelling through the Suez Canal from there. This was a threat to Britain’s trade routes, and that was reason enough for the British to conquer the Dervishes. The Dervishes’ leader Mohammed Abdullah Hassan was a Sufi poet in peacetime. Now a freedom fighter, the press dubbed him ‘The Mad Mullah.’ Neither mad, nor a Mullah, he was just a guy who believed his homeland was worth fighting for. The Dervishes of Somaliland would fight on until 1920, when the invaders brought planes to what was till then a gun fight. 

But the Dervishes aren’t our