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...have asked for it. Albania is the one European satellite which seems to have chosen Peking in the intramural ideological conflict between Russia and Red China. In June, when Khrushchev summoned all the satellite party chiefs to Bucharest to ratify his policy of "peaceful" coexistence, Albanian Party Secretary Enver Hoxha was the only top Communist boss missing. At the U.N., Shehu was noticeably more vigorous than Khrushchev in speaking up for admission of Red China, impudently echoing Red China's scornful charge that Russian Communism is losing its ideological militancy because it is afraid of nuclear war. And Albania...
...Albanian Cabinet, he reportedly shot an argumentative colleague dead over the conference table. His chief political stock in trade is his implacable hatred of Yugoslavia. Since Moscow's latest falling-out with Tito, this has apparently led Khrushchev to favor Shehu over Albania's First Party Secretary Enver Hoxha...
...Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. Then, to prove there was Marxism beneath the mush, he fired off a blast at "imperialist America and its puppets, who are continuing to arm themselves in an attempt to dominate the world." Next target for Ho's communal cuddling: Albania's Enver Hoxha...
Since Tito's expulsion from the Cominform in 1948, Albania has been Moscow's only isolated satellite. Its 1,250,000 people, largely dirt poor and illiterate, are ruled by 48,000 Communists, who in turn owe allegiance to the handsome and savagely cruel Communist dictator, Enver Hoxha. Except for an occasional Soviet submarine putting in at Albania's Saseno naval base,* and risky air communications across mountainous and hostile Greece and Yugoslavia, Albania has no contact with the Soviet world. It has almost none with...
...since the defection of Tito in Yugoslavia). Albania's 1,222,000 people, 70% Moslem, are vigorous and nationalistic. In trying to rule them, the Communists have involved themselves in a succession of purges and intramural rivalries. Last week a long-simmering feud between Albania's Premier Enver Hoxha and its Red police chief boiled up anew. When the steam lifted, handsome Hoxha was out and Colonel General Mehmet Shehu, hard-boiled army chief of staff and Minister of Interior, was in as Premier of Albania. Hoxha apparently still hung on to his job as head...