REFUZIMI I SHTETEVE TË BASHKUARA TË AMERIKËS PËR TË NJOHUR QEVERITË E DALA NGA KONGRESII PËRMETIT DHE MBLEDHJA E BERATIT, MAJ - NËNTOR 1944
THE USA’S REFUSAL TO RECOGNIZE THE GOVERNMENTS ESTABLISHED IN THE CONGRESS OF PERMET AND THE CONVENTION OF BERAT, MAY-NOVEMBER 1944

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with an important and controversial question of the WWII, namely the Antifascist National Liberation Committee [functioning as a Provisory Government] and the Provisory Democratic Government, established respectively in the Congress of Permet and the Convention of Berat, and the American government’s attitude towards them. The period from May to November 1944 marks a peculiar stage in the relations of the Antifascist National Liberation Front (ANLF) with the Allies. During this period the military assignments for the liberation of the country mingle with political aims. Firstly, the establishment of the Antifascist National Liberation Committee in the Congress of Permet, which functioned as a Provisory Government and the Provisory Democratic Government set up in the Convention of Berat were not recognized by the Allies; secondly, the two western Allies in the meeting of Bari [July-August 1944] recognized the Antifascist Liberation Movement (ALM) as the only resistance movement in Albania. After this decision, with the initiative of the British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, on 5 October 1944 the Allies withdrew their support for Balli Kombetar and Legaliteti; lastly, the three Allies took respective decisions to send to Albania their missions which would collect information on the situation in the country and later proceed with the formal recognition of the new regime. The American government sent to Albania a nonofficial civil mission, headed by the experienced diplomat Joseph E. Jacobs, while the British and Soviet governments assigned military missions. In preparing this article I have made extensive use of various sources, most notably American and Albanian archival documents and several published books and articles.

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