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Died. Ahmed Bey Zogu, 65, former King Zog I of Albania, who helped his Balkan land shake off Turkish despotism only to see it taken over, first by Italy, then by the Soviet Union; of stomach ulcers and a liver ailment; in Paris. "My life is an adventure story," said Zog, a mountain chieftain who rose from Premier to President to King, reigned for eleven years before Mussolini's troops chased him into lifelong exile in 1939. Zog, whose notorious chain-smoking (150 cigarettes a day) came as close to killing him as four assassination attempts, spent his last...
...power, or hold it only shakily, and are not under direct and complete Moscow discipline. The most wholehearted approval of Liu's blast reportedly came from the leaders of none-too-sizeable Communist parties in four Latin American countries-Venezuela, Colombia, Uruguay and Chile-as well as from Albania, Indonesia and North Korea. Some delegations apparently split-e.g., Argentina's intellectual Communist wing leaned to Liu, while its old-line trade unionists backed Moscow. At least one delegation played it down the middle: East Germany's Walter Ulbricht professed devotion to Khrushchev but wanted a tougher...
Among the gaggle of satellite Communist bosses trotting at Nikita Khrushchev's heels in Manhattan, one was conspicuously odd man out. Red Premier Mehmet Shehu of Albania was not on the Baltika's passenger list, got to Manhattan as an ordinary passenger on the S.S. Queen Elizabeth. At a Communist Czech reception, Shehu stood forlornly in a corner, studiously avoided by everybody except the State Department security man assigned as his bodyguard. And when, at a party given by the Rumanian Reds, Khrushchev took his satellite cronies into a back room for a chat, the door was shut...
Shehu seems to 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...
Just why tiny (10,630 sq. mi.) Albania, which has less area than West Virginia and fewer people than Detroit, should take Red China's part against the Russians is something of a mystery. Part of the answer may be its poverty; Albania has only 5,000 cars, trucks and buses, like Red China feels the need of keeping the class war at fever pitch to keep her people from rebelling against austerity. But another reason is historical and geographical accident: Tito's Yugoslavia, Albania's archenemy and neighbor, is currently the favorite target for Chinese criticism...