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[FONT="]However, the most comprehensive program in which the means and methods of solving the Albanian question were defined was the Memorandum, “The Expulsion of Albanians”, presented by the leading Serb historian Vasa Cubrilovic. Although the memorandum was presented at the Serbian Cultural Club on 7th March 1937, it would remain unknown to Albanian and Yugoslav public opinion for a long time. At the time when the memorandum was written, and for many years later, Serb policy-makers were careful to disclose its existence. They were aware of the fact that a racist project aimed at the elimination of an entire population from its ethnic territories, a rare project in the European history, would have political consequences damaging to its international standing and reputation. The aim, essentially, was to push the Kosovo Albanians into exile by making their lives unbearable. The author of the project Vaso Cubrilovic wrote:
[/FONT] [FONT="]“At a time when Germany can expel tens of thousands of Jews . . . the shifting of a few hundred thousand Albanians will not lead to the outbreak of a world war. The enforcement of laws to make economic activity by Albanians impossible, the ill-treatment of their clergy, the destruction of their cemeteries, and secretly burning down their villages and city quarters are some of the immediate measures that should be imposed”.
[/FONT] [FONT="]According to the very detailed project, the only way to provide a final solution to the Albanian question was to expel Kosovo Albanians, en masse, collectively in Turkey and Albania. An agreement between Serb and Turkish officials to expel initially over 40,000 Albanian families and later some 400, 000 Albanian families to Turkey was made in 1938.[/FONT]
Bekim Collaku Dissertation
[/FONT] [FONT="]“At a time when Germany can expel tens of thousands of Jews . . . the shifting of a few hundred thousand Albanians will not lead to the outbreak of a world war. The enforcement of laws to make economic activity by Albanians impossible, the ill-treatment of their clergy, the destruction of their cemeteries, and secretly burning down their villages and city quarters are some of the immediate measures that should be imposed”.
[/FONT] [FONT="]According to the very detailed project, the only way to provide a final solution to the Albanian question was to expel Kosovo Albanians, en masse, collectively in Turkey and Albania. An agreement between Serb and Turkish officials to expel initially over 40,000 Albanian families and later some 400, 000 Albanian families to Turkey was made in 1938.[/FONT]
Bekim Collaku Dissertation