Nobody could have expected in the autumn of 1918 that the frontiers of
the new State would be rapidly delimitated. Ethnological, economic,
historic and strategical arguments--to mention no others--would be
brought forward by either side, and the Supreme Council, which had to
deliver judgment on these knotty problems, would be often more
preoccupied with their own interests and their relation to each other.
It would also happen that a member of the Supreme Council would be
simultaneously judge and pleader. The mills of justice would therefore
grind very slowly, for they would be conscious that the fruit of their
efforts, evolved with much foreign material clogging the machinery and
with parts of the machinery jerked out of their line of track, would be
received with acute criticism. When more than two years had elapsed from
the time of the Armistice a considerable part of Yugoslavia's frontiers
remained undecided. We will travel along the frontier lines, starting
with that between Yugoslavs and Albanians.
(a) THE ALBANIAN FRONTIER