The economy brings the story of Costa Chechrez: Ahmet Zogu's minister for a little while to kill him with a revolver, the government called him “the Needy”

As a rebel activist who had graduated from Harvard University, Chechrez intended to extend American free press practices to Albania as well. But, of course, this could not allow Zogu's power by politically persecuting journalist Chechrezi and closing his newspaper tograf.

At one point, as Ikonomi writes, Chechrezi was in danger of personally being killed by Minister Delvina, but that was prevented by Prime Minister Kotta. The bird's power was cast into the persecution of Chechrezi after an editorial he had written in the Telegraph newspaper, where then the government was called “provisional Cabins” while the government of Kotos had called in French “Cabins de Service” which in Albanian means “nevovotore <5>, writes Periscope. Ikonomi has explained that he received information from the American archive.

Chechrez is described as one of the most influential men in the United States. For a time, he was appointed as Albania's representative in the US, and the US state intended to make him Albania's prime minister.

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In early September 1928, when Albania had just become a kingdom and President Ahmet Zogu had been declared King, an incident occurred in Tirana.

Constantine Chechrezi, a professor of philosophy who directed the Telegraph newspaper, had a quarrel with Justice Minister Delvina, who became so irritated that he threatened with revolvers. The event took place at the interior ministry offices, where Prime Minister Koco Kotta was present, who stopped Delvina's hand.

The reason for the quarrel was that in an editorial of the Telegraph, 36-year-old Chechrezi had insulted the government, calling it “a temporary cabinet. ”

The government closed the paper.

Costa Chechrezi, from Zichish of Korca, was a learned man with a Harvard degree. He had gone to Tirana in the early 1920s from Washington, where he had served about two years as Albania's commissioner (ambassads without official accreditation) and where he had given history classes at the National University. He was also the author of the English book on the history of Albania, Albania Pass and President, published in New York in 1919.

Chechrez's dream was to spread American principles of press freedom to Albania; he sought a free journalist from government censorship.

Immediately after the closure of the Chechrezi newspaper, he sent telegrams to the Associated Press news agency in Vienna, which he announced about the government's act and said his life was in danger.

The same day he went to the US Legata in Tirana, where he sought political refuge with the reason he had served for a time as a lawyer appointed by the US Attorney General to mediate the purchase of the site of the new Legata building, where the American Embassy is currently located.

United States Minister in Tirana Charles Hart told him he could not help. He took Chechrez aside and in a friendly conversation reminded him of the advice he had given earlier that, if at any cost he tried to manage a newspaper in Albania according to his American ideals, he would end up behind bars or be thrown into the street.

In fact, Chechrez rebel was well ahead of his time. He was arrested and the Tirana court sentenced him to one year in prison, though according to those who heard him in the courtroom he was well protected and eloquently. According to American Minister Hart, when Chechrezi was arrested, Prime Minister Koco Kotta wanted his opponent to be punished with execution, as he had acted a year earlier with two Bulgarians and an Albanian who had been sentenced to hanging, even though evidence against them had not been convincing.

Prime Minister Kotta and Minister Delvina were the ones who felt themselves most offended in this story. And that's why. When Chechrezi declared in his editorial that the government of Kotta by law was temporary, he had used French expression “Cabinet de Service” for the Albanian cabinet. Italy's powerful minister in Tirana, Ugo Sola, went to the office of Prime Minister Kotta, who told him that Chechrezi had seriously offended the government because “Cabinet de Service” in Albanian translated “nevoyre”. The prime minister did not know French, and he became very angry after what Sola told him. So angry was he that he did not want to listen to other cabinet ministers telling him that Chechrez had not used the expression in the sense of the safe.

Chechrez served only three weeks in prison and was pardoned by King Zog in mid - October 1928.

But the rebel remained rebellious. In 1932 he was again imprisoned for involvement in a rebellion against the King, escaped to Italy, moved to France, and finished again in the United States.

Costa Chechrez died in Arlington near Washington in 1959.

(Documen issued by American archive)