Ka rite ki a Tiamana i whakawhiwhia ki a Austria, ka neke ki Czechoslovakia, ka kite a Itari i a ia ano hei mema tuarua o te Axis. Ko te whanautanga tata o te tamaiti kingi o Albania i whakawehi ki te hoatu ki a Kingi Zog he whakapapa pumau. Whai muri i te whakaekenga a Hitler ki Czechoslovakia (15 o Poutu-te-rangi 1939) me te kore e whakamōhio i a Mussolini i mua, ka whakatau te rangatira o Itari ki te haere tonu ki tana ake whakaekenga o Albania. I whakahe a Kingi Victor Emmanuel III o Itari i te mahere ki te tango i a Albania hei morearea kore. I te Paenga-whāwhā 7, 1939, ka whakaekehia a Albania e Itari
; i roto i te pakanga poto, i nohoia te whenua ka uru atu ki Itari i roto i te uniana whaiaro.