Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te wa i whakaekehia ai a Tiamana ki a Austria, i whakaekea ai a Czechoslovakia, i 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 7 o Aperira, 1939,
I whakaekehia a Itari ki Albania; i roto i te pakanga poto, i nohoia te whenua ka uru atu ki Itari i roto i te uniana whaiaro.