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Early this month, first stopping off for a talk with Khrushchev in the Crimea, Marshal Zhukov boarded the cruiser Kuibyshev for a long-planned visit to Yugoslavia and Albania. Clad in rough green hunting suit, he went shooting mountain goats with Tito (he bagged four, Tito one). Though Tito took the step of establishing diplomatic relations with East Germany while he was in the country, Zhukov seemed unconcerned about such political matters. In his one big speech he boasted of "our first-class modern arms, including atomic and hydrogen weapons . . . the intercontinental ballistic rocket." Barging slowly through Albania, he inspected...
...Turkish army forms the largest national contribution to the West's European forces. Along with the somewhat less impressive army of neighboring Greece--currently distracted from full co-operation by the divisive Cyprus issue--the Turkish army is responsible for defending a 1400-mile armed frontier stretching from Albania on the west to the Russian Cauccasus on the east. Yet, despite recent Soviet missile threats, this exposed position involves hazards that are nothing new for the Turks, who for centuries, have fought the Russians for control of the Dardanelles...
...mystery and history made intrigue the chief occupation of the southeast corner of Europe. Even Communism cannot break all,old habits; it merely regularizes the worst ones. Last week Rumanian Communist Premier Chivu Stoica, rising from deserved obscurity, set a bright little intrigue going. He invited five neighbors-Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey-to a conference to form a Balkan nonaggression alliance. Obviously, Communist Premier Stoica is by definition incapable of independent thought. Then...
Soviet satellites Bulgaria and Albania immediately accepted the invitation. So far, predictable. Yugoslavia's Comrade Tito called the proposal "very useful," but did not immediately accept. He indicated that he wanted to consult with Greece and Turkey, his partners in the dormant anti-Kremlin Balkan pact of 1954. It now became obvious that the proposal came as no surprise to him, and must have grown out of Tito's meeting with Khrushchev in Rumania last month. But it was considerably less clear who fathered the scheme, and who stood to gain most by its acceptance or rejection...
...charges that France was planning "a military alliance with Israel," that Britain had committed aggression in Oman and Yemen, that the U.S. was plotting against the Egyptian and Syrian governments. Like the two Soviet naval squadrons which last week moved through the Mediterranean showing the Red flag in Albania and Yugoslavia, the notes served incidentally to assure Arab opportunists that the U.S.S.R. had moved into the Middle East to stay...