Albania

Country

Albania, officially known as the Republic of Albania, is a country in Southeast Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the west, and on the Ionian Sea ...

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Sunday 14th July 1940

German Oil Supplies. Fourth Report by Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd's Committee on the German Oil Position.

extract Petroleum Minister calls oil "very weak link" in German hegemony. Suggests bombing German, Italian, French refineries
person Geoffrey Lloyd, Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd
place Portugal
place Russian Empire
place Hungary
place Turkey
place Europe
place Albania
place Denmark
 

The Baltic States.

extract Lord Halifax recommends British government refuse to recognise USSR's occupation by "force and fraud" of Baltic States
person Sumner Welles
person Joseph Stalin
person E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
place Finland
place East Germany
place Albania
organisation Bank of England
 

Tuesday 12th November 1940

Meeting minutes

extract General Dill: Greeks advancing again towards Kalamas river. Italian troops "unenthusiastic" over move to Albanian front
extract Air Chief: 5 Italian airmen taken prisoner yesterday. Fiat bomber landed with engine still running. Fighter escort fled
person Alexander Cadogan
person Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Stafford Cripps
person Stephen King
person William Lyon Mackenzie King
person Kingsley Wood
person John Dill
person Leo Amery
place Greece
place Egypt
place Cranborne
place Halifax Peninsula
place Sudan
place Albania
place Greenwood, Nova Scotia
organisation Parliament of the United Kingdom
 

Meeting minutes

extract Cabinet approves package of loans and credit for China. Ministers to examine possibility of supplying "obsolete" aircraft
extract UK Diplomats report Italy did not expect Greece to resist attack. Italians "still retreating in disorder from Konitza"
extract PM: This "naval occasion" brings home importance of hitting Italy as hard as we can. "We should press this advantage"
extract Admiralty: Fleet Air Arm has carried out "very successful attack" with torpedoes and bombs on Italian fleet at Taranto
person Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Stafford Cripps
person Samuel Hoare
person Kingsley Wood
place Lancaster, Lancashire
place Greece
place Halifax Peninsula
place Turkey
place Sudan
place Valona, California
place Albania
place Bulgaria
place Burma
place Libya
organisation Hopatcong High School
 

Meeting minutes

extract Halifax: Death of Egypt's PM throws politics there "into the melting-pot". UK Ambassador hopes to find replacement
extract General Dill: Greeks have begun large scale counterattack advancing in a number of sectors. Many Italian prisoners taken
extract Admiral: Shipping Ministry must stop persistent tendency of convoy ships to straggle. Stragglers vulnerable to air attack
extract Anderson: Raid "heaviest yet experienced". Full details not yet available. Reinforcements of Police, firemen sent to city
extract Air Chief: 300 enemy bombers in Coventry attack. RAF targetted aerodromes to lessen assault with "fairly good results"
person Stephen King
person Bob Kerslake
person Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn
person Jean Bart
place Greece
place Egypt
place Cranborne
place Sudan
place Valona, California
place Albania
place Africa
place Chad
place Burma
 

Meeting minutes

extract Chancellor: Greeks have misunderstood Treasury's position. UK offering "them more than they had asked". First advance £5m
extract Halifax: Greek government "keenly disappointed" by "ungenerous attitude" of UK Treasury in supplying financial aid
extract Morrison: Local people "shaken" and "bitter" but "kept their heads". King's visit "of the utmost value" recovering morale
extract Morrison: Damage to munitions production in Coventry less extensive than feared but water and gas positions "bad"
extract PM Churchill: Clear we cannot increase our air reinforcements to Greece beyond what we have already arranged to send
extract General Dill: Greeks have crossed Albanian border, captured town of Bilishti. General Papagos requests more air support
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Stafford Cripps
place Athens
place Greece
place Malta
place Gibraltar
place Berlin
place Albania
organisation Home Office
organisation New Zealand Treasury
organisation House of Commons of the United Kingdom
organisation Foreign Office (Germany)
organisation United States Navy
organisation BBC
 

Meeting minutes

extract Morrison: Information on Birmingham attack "rather scanty" but though bad, seemingly not so serious as that on Coventry
extract PM Churchill: We are not in a position to increase our air reinforcements
extract General Dill: Greeks holding position. Advance into Albania "hardly practicable" until enemy air attacks countered
extract PM to make further appeal to Roosevelt to ask whether USA could spare more destroyers to counter this "additional strain"
extract Admiralty: U-Boat activity has extended to West Africa coast, a "new and important area". 4 vessels sunk in last few days
extract Air Chief: 400 enemy aircraft over UK overnight. Attacks on London, Birmingham ("considerable damage") Midlands, E.Anglia
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Charles de Gaulle
person Herbert Morrison
person Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn
place Freetown
place Greece
place East Anglia
place Berlin
place Albania
place Africa
place Bulgaria
place West Germany
place Libya
organisation Home Office
organisation Luftwaffe
organisation House of Commons of the United Kingdom
organisation Home Fleet
 

Meeting minutes

extract Cabinet approves cancelling Boxing Day Bank Holiday "for workers engaged on essential production" after talks with unions
extract Britain to urge Turkey and Yugoslavia to announce they would declare war if German troops were allowed to enter Bulgaria
person Alexander Cadogan
person Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Andrew Greenwood
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Herbert Morrison
person Stafford Cripps
person Kingsley Wood
person Clement Attlee
place Egypt
place Cranborne
place Halifax Peninsula
place Birmingham
place Turkey
place Gibraltar
place Berlin
place Albania
place Bulgaria
organisation Home Office
 

Meeting minutes

extract Churchill: If Eire had been willing to come into the war "public opinion might well have brought about a united Ireland"
extract PM De Valera remains "totally unreceptive" to UK use of Irish ports, thinks US entry to the war would make no difference
extract Air and Information Ministers to meet newspaper editors over reports of bombing which convey information to the enemy
extract General Dill: Greeks making further advances in Northern and Pindus sectors, meeting with more resistance in the Epirus
person Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Andrew Greenwood
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Herbert Morrison
person Samuel Hoare
person John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby
person Kingsley Wood
person Clement Attlee
person John Dill
place Plymouth
place Cranborne
place Halifax Peninsula
place Albania
place Bristol
organisation Home Office
organisation RAF Coastal Command
organisation House of Commons of the United Kingdom
 

Tuesday 3rd December 1940

Meeting minutes

extract Admiralty brief junior Ministers on recent success against Italy with "very limited" forces. 27 Italian subs sunk so far
place Greece
place Egypt
place Turkey
place Malta
place Gibraltar
place Albania
place Libya
organisation RAF Coastal Command
organisation Royal Navy
 

Meeting minutes

extract Morrison: Production restored in Sheffield shortly. Civic authorities have stood the strain well, public morale excellent
extract General Dill: Heavy snow in Albania but Greeks making some small advances. War Office considering sending warm clothing
extract General Dill: Position in Bardia "developing slowly and favourably". 800 prisoners taken at Sidi Omar and more to come
extract Air Chief: Recent air fighting in Libya "extremely satisfactory". UK losses 10, enemy 77 certain and 25 probable
extract Air Chief: "Excellent results" from 3 nights of attacks on Mannheim. 100 tons of explosives, 14,000 incendiaries dropped
extract Halifax: Swiss have issued "very strong" protest over bombing of Basle. Claim clear visibility means "no possible excuse"
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Herbert Morrison
place Greece
place Egypt
place Cranborne
place Albania
place Africa
place Burma
place Libya
organisation Home Office
organisation Royal Air Force
 

Monday 6th January 1941

Meeting minutes

extract Eden: News from Bulgaria "disquieting". A number of indications government coming "under strong pressure from Germany"
extract PM: Attack "brilliantly executed", casualties "extraordinarily small". No need to emphasise there was not "much fighting"
extract General Dill: 25,000 prisoners taken at capture of Bardia "including 2 Corps Commanders and 4 Senior Generals"
person Anthony Eden
person Alexander Cadogan
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Andrew Greenwood
person Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Samuel Hoare
person Kingsley Wood
person Clement Attlee
person John Dill
place Gibraltar
place Albania
place Bulgaria
place West Germany
place Libya
organisation Royal Air Force
organisation House of Commons of the United Kingdom
organisation Foreign Office (Germany)
 

Weekly Resume (No. 73) of the Naval, Military and Air Situation from 12 noon January 16th, to 12 noon January 23rd 1941.

extract Chiefs of Staff: Over 14,000 prisoners taken so far at Tobruk and about 200 guns. "Our casualties were under 500"
person Richard Kiel
place Great Britain
place Freetown
place Somaliland
place Alexandria Troas
place Narvik
place Malta
place Gibraltar
place Tobruk
place Albania
place Africa
place Libya
organisation RAF Coastal Command
organisation Luftwaffe
organisation Scapa
organisation RAF Fighter Command
 

Monday 17th February 1941

Meeting minutes

extract Cadogan: President Roosevelt had "frank talk" with Japanese Ambassador. Tension in the Far East seems to have lessened
extract General Dill: Greeks again taking offensive in Albania, apparently with success, but so far only 400 prisoners confirmed
extract General Dill: "Not yet known what success, if any" achieved in Operation Colossus before our parachutists taken prisoner
extract Air Chief: 3 lost enemy aircraft have landed or tried to land at UK aerodromes. One captured intact with crew
person Alexander Cadogan
person George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Herbert Morrison
person Francisco Franco
place Greece
place Cranborne
place Iraq
place Turkey
place Europe
place Kismayo
place Albania
place Thailand
place Africa
place Bulgaria
place Libya
organisation Home Office
 

Authority to H.M. Ships and Aircraft in the Mediterranean to sink Merchant Ships without warning.

extract Admiralty authorises widening of Navy's ability to sink on sight in the Adriatic, Gulf of Genoa and Central Mediterranean
place Egypt
place Malta
place Tunisia
place Algeria
place Albania
place Libya
 

Meeting minutes

extract PM Churchill "deeply moved" by assent of Dominion Governments. They have "responded magnificently" to severe proposals
extract PM Menzies: Australian government concurs in the proposed use of two Australian divisions in Greece
person Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
person Harold Wilson
place South Africa
place Republic of Macedonia
place Greece
place Egypt
place Turkey
place Albania
place Bulgaria
place Libya
 

Tuesday 4th March 1941

Meeting minutes

extract PM: Movement of Allied troops due to start today but no troops to arrive in Greece "for another four days"
extract PM: Prospects in the Balkans "not promising". Bulgaria now under German control. Greece will "have to fight for her life"
person Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
place Greece
place Egypt
place Albania
place Bulgaria
 

Meeting minutes

extract Cabinet again discusses deployment to Greece. Agree position has changed for the worse. Might be necessary to reconsider
place Republic of Macedonia
place Athens
place Greece
place Belgrade
place Turkey
place Albania
place Bulgaria
organisation Air Force F.C.
 

Meeting minutes

extract PM Menzies concerned over Greece operation. All new factors add to difficulties, no reason offered why it should succeed
person Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
place Republic of Macedonia
place Greece
place Egypt
place Belgrade
place Turkey
place Albania
place Bulgaria
place West Germany
organisation Foreign Office (Germany)
organisation Foreign and Commonwealth Office
 

Tuesday 8th April 1941

Meeting minutes

extract Beaverbrook: Serious damage suffered by aircraft factories at Rochester and Belfast last night
extract Haining: Greeks holding out at Roupel Pass and on the Nestos Line. Yugoslavs have given ground in the Strumica Valley
extract General Haining: It is believed our infantry formations in Libya have completed their withdrawal to the Tobruk area
extract War Cabinet accepts offer from President Roosevelt for additional US forces to defend Newfoundland, Bermuda and Trinidad
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Telesforo Trinidad
place Cranborne
place Bermuda
place Albania
place Newfoundland, Kentucky
place Greenwood, Nova Scotia
place Libya
organisation Hopatcong High School
 

Meeting minutes

extract Indian Government to send troops to secure Basra in Iraq. General Rashid Ali to be told but force will "land in any case"
extract General Dill: Our force in Greece holding its own against heavy German attack. But enemy has taken Sollum on Egypt border
extract General Dill: Germans have occupied North Yugoslavia. Their advance likely to be by Sarajevo and Mostar to the Adriatic
extract Air Chief: In Libya on April 12th our bombers made 4 attacks and dispersed about 60 enemy tanks drawn up to attack Tobruk
extract Air Chief: In Balkans we have (with severe aircraft losses) inflicted fairly serious damage on advancing German troops
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Rashid Ali al-Gaylani
place Greece
place Egypt
place Cranborne
place Iraq
place Iceland
place Basra
place Eritrea
place Albania
place Addis Ababa
place Libya
organisation RAF Coastal Command
 

Meeting minutes

extract PM: "Navy must be prepared to suffer heavy losses in order to cut the enemy line of communication" from Italy to Libya
extract Telegram from Yugoslav government asking for air evacuation to Athens. Greek government considering evacuation to Crete
extract General Dill: "Most serious news" German mechanised columns moving to cut off Greek army in Albania
person Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
person Rashid Ali al-Gaylani
place Athens
place Greece
place Egypt
place Baghdad
place Iraq
place Basra
place Albania
place Cyprus
place Tripoli, Greece
place Alexandria
place Libya
organisation United States Navy
 

Friday 23rd May 1941

Lord Hankey's Committee on Preventing Oil from reaching Enemy Powers. Seventh Report.

extract Petroleum Secretary again urges heavy bombing attacks on German oil resources. "Impact of events" so far preventing these
person Geoffrey Lloyd, Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd
place Finland
place Russian Empire
place Iraq
place Europe
place Albania
place West Germany
organisation Air Force F.C.
organisation German Army
organisation Luftwaffe
organisation United States Navy