20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

National project for Aromanians in Albany during the interbellum... 889this way, neither the intellectuals, for fear of losing their politicalpositions or their administrative functions, nor the merchants andthe wealthy people, for fear of having their enterprises exploited…”The Synthesis:”there will obviously be many among the Romanian intellectualin Albania who will fear to do it [the organization as a minority]for fear of losing their political positions or their administrativefunctions and there will be many merchants and wealthy peoplewho will guard from doing it, for fear the Albanian authoritiesmight disturb their various occupations …””Having a sufficient situation, they don’t consider emigratingto Romania, or any other foreign country. But these Romaniansfrom the city live astray and lacking any organization they’reexposed to a slow but sure denationalization and their nationalconsciousness starts to grow weak.”The Telegram:”I could tell through my visit that the Aromanians which arebrighter and more educated, that what we could call the localaristocracy, the “moscopolens”, as they call them in Corcea(although Moscopole is but a mountainous village now), don’treally take part in the national movement, which is limited to thepourer class more.The reasons seem to be, on the one hand prudence, the fear ofmessing with authorities, of losing- when they are merchants- a partof their Albanian clients, and on the other hand the circumstancesthat the Romanian schools in Albania are only primary schoolsand that, ever since the Romanian high-school in Bitolia had beenclosed, the children had to take the classes of Albanian gymnasiumsin order to follow through with their studies, in which case theirbasic education in Romanian is more than suppressed…””The winning back of the Aromanian bourgeois, which isabout to fade quickly amidst the Albanian majority (or Slavonicin Bitolia), is thus a very urgent problem if we mean to maintainthe Romanian movement in the Balkans mostly, and especially inAlbania and the neighbouring regions, with a spiritual life whichis more susceptible to development and a prestige which is muchhigher and fitting for the meaning of Romania in the Balkans.”The Report:”The Romanians from the city are mostly exposed to thedancer of being lost in mingling with Albanians”.