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- Title
ALBANIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS (1912-1922) PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON AND THE QUESTION OF VLORA DURING THE PEACEMAKING.
- Authors
VORA, Rovena
- Abstract
This paper aims at bringing some historical facts about the Albanian question at the beginning of the twentieth century and the role of the American president, Woodrow Wilson, in defending the existence of an independent Albanian state. Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-eighth president of the United States, has on several occasions pronounced important speeches inspired by the most noble sentiments of humanity. The Albanians, having lost all faith in the tortuous ways of the traditional policy followed by European powers in their regard, harassed by unceasing quarrels of the Balkan countries, looked towards Wilson as their Apostle. For this reason, we have tried to present an account of Wilson’s career and his foreign policy, accomplishments that gave him an undisputed place among the first rank of Presidents and placed America at the head of civil progress throughout the world. The entrance of the United States in the First World War in March 1917 and the Proclamation by President Wilson of the Fourteen Points Program as the basis for world order aroused great hope among the Albanians, that counted on American help for a just solution of their problems and the achievement of nationhood. The Paris Peace Conference liberated nationalities from foreign control, established ethnical boundaries and adjusted territorial disputed in the Balkans. It was clear that America had entered and fought the war for moral principles, to vindicate the rights of small nationalities and to protect the weak against the strong.
- Subjects
AMERICA; BALKAN Peninsula; WILSON, Woodrow, 1856-1924; PRESIDENTS of the United States; BOUNDARY disputes; RECONCILIATION; WORLD War I; PROGRESS; INTERNATIONAL organization; HUMANITY; ACHIEVEMENT
- Publication
Vizione, 2021, Issue 37, p15
- ISSN
1409-8962
- Publication type
Article