THE TRUTH DOES NOT HARM DEMOCRACY, BUT HELPS IT – Interview with the former editor-in-chief of the newspaper «Rilindja demokratike», Mr. PROF QUPI, given to the editor-in-chief NIKOLLË LESI for the newspaper «Koha jonë», and the Albanian journalist working and living in Stockholm, MELAIM ZEKA, about the European press. kallaskarië qehte ngriuri Shumë publikisht refaruar tuaja skandaloze. The King demanded your remedy, your sacrifice... it is not worth the effort as much as right. The broadest impressions will be spread for propf. words. [? tezve, will be in newspapers photographs hevend while... the words of po më su? [? ] As the owner of the newspaper «Rilindja demokratike» at the condemned base. Albania is working on a scaling and the newspaper as «still voiceless». (as before?) [? The interview is in a question-and-answer format. The text is partly illegible in the left and middle columns. The names visible are: Prof. Qupi, Nikollë Lesi, Melaim Zeka, Koha jonë, Stockholm, Europe. Yes, really mine? Diro the hours in three days qetë and po do të qejfë, but are these not all broken? ... [? Would you have had the right to expect now from the press, if not truly honest? We are hearing it said that it will no longer be in the...? [? (To be continued on page 2)

GENTLEMEN OF THE STABILITY GOVERNMENT! DO NOT GIVE PEOPLE THE CHANCE TO SAY... GENTLEMEN OF THE STABILITY GOVERNMENT! DO NOT GIVE PEOPLE THE CHANCE TO SAY... "... AT LEAST IN ENVER HOXHA'S TIME, WE HAD BREAD!" We must feel or notice that our current actions are leading toward misery and the future. Some call this "revenge"; others call it "punishment." Both can become the thought of the people when the lack of bread drives a person to compare life today with the past. The unemployed are multiplying, wages are low, prices are high, and the market cannot even provide the most basic necessities. Ordinary people measure change not by words and promises, but by their daily bread. If the government does not understand this bitter truth, then it will itself create the ground for the people, tired and desperate, to say sorrowfully: "at least in Enver Hoxha's time, we had bread!" This is a moral and social warning. It is not praise of the past, but an accusation against the incompetence of the present. (To be continued on page 4)

NO MERCY, BUT PUNISHMENT Mercy is a liberal name, one that does not appear where it should. A harsh punishment for those stained by corruption, abuse, the destruction of the public interest, and violations of the law is an essential condition for the health of the state. There is no longer room for mercy toward those who have turned the administration into loot and justice into a marketplace. The people expect punishment, not words. To be just does not mean to be soft. On the contrary, justice requires determination and example. Only thus can citizens' trust in the state be reborn. (To be continued on page 4) ILJAZ PËNCLI The IV star of the publication Friday 9 AUGUST 1931 No. 58 (172) 1 LEK