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Archives of Military-Historic Institute
Vasa Cubrilovic, “The Expulsion of the
Albanians”
Lecture held at the Serbian Cultural
Club, on 7 March, 1937
Conclusion
Bearing in mind everything that has been said above, it is no accident
that in studying the issue of the colonization of the south, we start from
the view that the only effective way of solving this problem is the mass
emigration of the Albanians. Like other countries, we have had no success
with gradual colonization. When the state authorities wish to intervene
in the interests of our own nationality's struggle for land, they can only
do so successfully if they act brutally. Otherwise, the local inhabitants,
rooted in their birthplace and acclimatized to it, are always stronger
than the colonists. In our case, we must remember at an early stage that
we are dealing with a poor, deep-rooted, and fertile race, whom the late
Cvijic called the race in the Balkans most likely to expand. Between 1870
and 1914, Germany spent whole billions of marks in gradually buying land
from the Poles, in order to colonise its eastern territories, but the fertility
of Polish mothers defeated German organisation and money.
Thus, in 1918, Poland claimed Poznan as its own again. Our statistics
from the years 1912-1931, which we have already mentioned, show that the
fertility of Albanian women defeated our colonisation policy too. From
this, we must draw conclusions and act swiftly as long as we have time
to make corrections.
All Europe is in a state of chaos. We never know what the next day
will bring. Albanian nationalism is increasing in our territories too.
To leave the situation as it is means, in the case of a world conflict
or a social revolution, both of which are possible in the near future,
to put a question mark over all our territories in the south. The purpose
of this memorandum is to avoid such a thing.
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