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...device may be effective, but it clearly seeks unity at the cost of greater East-West tension. Another factor that confirms Russian determination to keep its satellites in hand is the obvious unease of many of the East European states. Rumania and Yugoslavia have both been jittery and even Albania, long unfriendly to Yugoslavia, established contacts with Belgrade as Bulgarian troops massed on the Yugoslav border and as the chief of staff of the Warsaw Pact forces paid a rushed visit to Sofia...
...importance the breakaways of Yugoslavia and China from what was a monolithic world organization at the close of World War II. In an unprecedented show of defiance, the great majority of the world's 88 Communist parties have refused to approve Moscow's action against Czechoslovakia. Albania, China's Adriatic ally, even seized on the occasion last week to announce its complete withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact...
...Stalin would not risk U.S. atomic firepower by intervening, Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito took the first successful walk from Moscow. The Kremlin successfully stamped out Hungary's uprising in 1956, but Tito has been followed in this decade by the puritanical Chinese and their sympathizers in Albania, then by Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu, who wanted to pursue a freer foreign policy. Thus Russia now finds itself caught in the middle, between the Stalinist reaction of China on one side and the liberal yearnings of Czechoslovakia on the other...
...books form a fascinating mosaic of the contradictory character of the master spy, a man ruthlessly cold and dedicated to Communism professionally, but by all accounts a warm and likable man in his personal life. Philby dispatched hundreds of Albanian patriots to their deaths, in theory landing them in Albania to stir up resistance, but in fact sending them straight into the guns of the Albanian Communist troops, whom he had tipped off. But he worried over some innocent emigrants mistakenly interned as German agents during World War II. He also wept when his pet fox was pushed...
...year, China's appropriately named National Day. Cultural Revolutionary China had managed to pick quarrels with no fewer than 32 countries. Among them were Indonesia, Ghana and Tunisia, which broke off diplomatic relations with Peking. In fact, only five foreign governments sent their traditional delegations to National Day: Albania, the Brazzaville Congo, Pakistan, Tanzania and North Viet Nam. Of the 45 nations around the world with which China still maintains diplomatic ties, only one -Egypt-is graced by the presence of a Chinese ambassador at his post...