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...colonialism, but let us be equally unanimous and positive in declaring to the world that we are unanimous in our opposition to all forms of colonialism. Colonialism takes many forms. Think, for example, of those satellite states under Communist domination in Central and Eastern Europe-of Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland. Are these not colonies as much as any of the colonial territories in Africa? If we are united in our opposition to colonialism, should it not be our duty to declare our opposition to Soviet colonialism as much as to Western imperialism? Our friends...
...Offered to give (since the law does not prohibit giving) Communist Albania $850,000 worth of wheat flour, corn, dried beans and vegetable oil to see the population (1,246,000) through the annual late-winter-early-spring food crisis. The offer was promptly denounced in Moscow as a hypocritical propaganda maneuver, if Received, from Colorado's new Democratic Governor (and former U.S. Senator) Edwin C. Johnson, Colorado's 1955 nonresident fishing license...
...Pieces. The others spoke their set pieces. Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz of Poland said he viewed revived German militarism (Western, that is) with alarm, and endorsed Molotov's suggestion for a united command. Premier Viliam Siroky of Czechoslovakia said he did, too. Deputy Premiers or Foreign Ministers of Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary and Rumania said they "eagerly," "warmly," "enthusiastically" supported Comrade Molotov's proposals. That took four days...
Timofeev's method was simple. He tried to shoehorn the cooperative societies in Poland, Hungary, Albania and East Germany into the international alliance. The votes of regional cooperatives and Communist collectives (each would get one to ten votes, according to membership) in the satellite countries would be a decisive step toward eventual control of the I.C.A. But leaders of the cooperatives in the West were ready for the assault. To be admitted to I.C.A. membership, a cooperative must follow certain principles laid down by the world organization. One of these is that a cooperative society must determine...
Pocket-sized Albania has always been the most backward of the Iron Curtain countries and to the Kremlin presents the additional problem of being the only satellite isolated from Moscow by unfriendly territory (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...