Albanian question
The Albanian question was the issue of preservation of Albanian independence and territorial integrity following the World War I in relation to the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. In a presidential note published in The New York Times on 4 March 1920, Woodrow Wilson affirmed that "he cannot approve any plan which assigns to Jugo-Slavia in the Northern district of Albania territorial compensation for what she is deprived of elsewhere," thus forestalling the concession of Shkodër (Scutari) to Yugoslavia in exchange for Yugoslav recognition of Italian rights to Fiume.