* * * The Albanian Government, for its part, has
managed the wrangle with considerable shrewdness. It has reported all the incidents to the .League of Nations, and has thus laid claim to credit for behaving correctly. It has also refused to withdraw the Albanian diplomatic representative from Belgrade. This is particularly clever, as that representative is notoriously friendly to Yugo- Slavia. If he is withdrawn his departure will be due to the request of Yugo-Slavia herself, who will thus be put in the position of dismissing a friend. As things are, diplomatic relations between Yugo-Slavia and Albania are only half broken. Paris, apparently in consultation with London, is anxious not to magnify the quarrel by letting it come before the League. The Council of the League will probably regard the Albanian report, not as an appeal for intervention, but as a document sent for information. The next move is to get the Yugo-Slavian Chargé d'Affaires back to Tirana and then affairs may resume their normal course. The French newspapers which at first excitedly supported Yugo-Slavia arc now writing mueh more coolly and recognize the undesirability of encouraging hot-headedness.
