Word: albania
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...Albania's pro-Communist President, hulking, baby-faced Enver Hoxha (pronounced Hodja) knew that this week's constitutional convention election was in the bag. His 82 candidates were certain to overwhelm the 20 venturesome men who had turned up in opposition. So he permitted free and secret balloting, under a system rude but effective. It functioned admirably...
...would, they knew, turn his back on Italy, which once guided Albania's course. Enver Hoxha faced east, toward Russia...
...those offered any other power (i.e., Russia). Both the U.S. and Britain suddenly promised to recognize the pro-Communist Albanian Government of Premier Colonel General Enver Hoxha-provided the Dec. 2 elections were free. The U.S. added its own condition: its most-favored-nation agreement of 1922 with Albania must remain valid...
Simultaneously Moscow announced its own recognition of the Hoxha Government. Since war's end, Russia has made no economic treaty with Albania...
Baltimore stockyards rang with the impatient bellows of 337 cows, the whinnies of 396 restless mares. A ship stood empty in the harbor, ready to load. And across the water, Yugoslavia, Poland, Greece, Albania and Czechoslovakia (with more than five million farm animals lost in the war) waited hungrily for replacements...