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786 Adina Berciu-Drăghicescuschool from Corcea 50 . The establishment of many of them remained inproject stage.The new minister of Romania in Tirana, Trandafirescu, receivedassurances in 1926 from the Minister of Foreign Affairs A. Vrioni andfrom the Senate President, Pandele Evanghele, that in the autumn of 1926high school of Crocea operated and that Romanian schools will be set up atNicea, Grabova, Lunca and Elbasan, provided that teachers be Albanianssubjected and be paid by the Albanian state. In the report of May the 26 th ,1926, Trandafirescu outlined that he sent in Romania 94 students withscholarships from Albania, from whom the future teachers will be recruitedfor Romanian schools in this country 51 .All these efforts had no result. In the autumn of 1927, the Albanianstate nationalized all schools, including the Romanian schools in Corcea,Pleaşa and Şipsca. The Albanian authorities appointed priest CottaBalamace, as principal of the school in Corcea, replacing Cupan Arai.Between Cotta Balamace and Dumitru Teja, president of the Romaniancommunity of Corcea, a strong conflict erupted. The Aromanian CultureSociety demanded to the Ministry of Public Education the dismissal of allschool teachers who accepted to work in nationalized schools. 52Several memoirs addressed by Cotta Balamace to the Ministry ofPublic Education in Romania and the Romanian Patriarch clarified thesituation: "... I temporarily accepted to operate at school to save the lastspark, believing that the Romanian government will intervene with theAlbanian government. Once schools were closed they remained so, as it isthe case of the other schools in Albania". 53In the autumn of 1930, pursuant to the diplomatic efforts of Romania’snew Minister in Tirana, Vasile Stoica, the schools from Şipsaca and Corceawere given back to the Romanian communities; N.H. Balamace wasappointed principal and Cotta and Elena Balamace were appointed schoolteachers. 54 In May 1937, the opening permit for other 5 Romanian schoolsin Dişniţa, Lunca, Grabova, Moscopole and Nicea had still been obtained.School teachers were paid by the Albanian state, but they received of theRomanian state, in addition, an allowance of 1,200 lei per month. This hasbeen paid continuously in the period September the 1 st , 1937 – to Septemberthe 1 st , 1939 throughout Romania's consulate in Tirana. 55 In the school year50Ibidem, f. 152.51Ibidem.52Ibidem, f. 156.53Ibidem, file 768/1922, f. 122-12354Ibidem, f. 127.55Ibidem, file 756/1930, f. 4-5.