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Charles Downer Hazen, professor of History at Harvard University (at the time):
"... For this is, as far as I know, the first book by an Albanian on Albania, that has appeared in the English language. As such it throws light upon matters not too well known to the English-reading public, and may furnish, in many particulars, a corrective to views more or less widespread. The author is, of course, alone responsible for his statements and opinions, but that he adds to our knowledge concerning a subject on which we are none too well informed, is the opinion of the one who writes this introduction.
Mr. Chekrezi graduated in 1909 from the Gymnasium of Korcha. Later he studied law for a short time at the University of Athens and then became a journalist. When Albania was made an independent state in 1912 he was appointed Interpreter and later Secretary to the International Conir mission of Control for Albania, created by the London Conference of Ambassadors. He came to the United States in November, 1914, and has in the meantime studied at Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1918, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts..."
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