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...Kremlin's biggest worries is the disintegration of Communist unity. Of the 14 Communist states, five are not represented by their top leaders at this week's celebration. Albania rejected the invitation, and China did not stoop to reply, while Cuba's Fidel Castro, North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh and North Korea's Kim II Sung sent others in their place. The schisms are all the more serious because they come at a time when Russia's rulers lack the imagination and daring to formulate a policy to deal with them...
...career as a Greek diplomat. His family lost all it had during the disastrous Greek-Turkish war in 1922. As regimes changed, his antimonarchist father, a professor of law, was hired or fired. The young poet lived as a diplomat or political exile in a bewildering succession of places-Albania, Crete, South Africa, Egypt, Italy, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq. During World War II, when the Germans and Italians occupied Greece, he remained with his government in exile. From 1957 until 1961, he was Greece's Ambassador to London. He once wrote...
...agency from official French control, and begun to woo the 150 subscribers in 60 countries that A.F.P. has since won. Marin, now 64, has expanded his team of correspondents and stringers by 100. They are free to enter and report from almost every nation in the world except Albania and Guinea...
...Greek living in Albania, Thomas Karathanos saw the Communists torture his father to death in 1944 and himself spent five years in forced-labor camps. In May of 1954, he and six surviving members of his family attempted to flee to Greece; Albanian border guards ambushed the party and slaughtered all save Karathanos, who made good his escape [TIME, July...
Farthest out of all was Foreign Minister Nesti Nase of Peking-lining Albania, who proposed a formal resolution to condemn not only Israel but also the U.S. and Britain. Russia, he indicated, should really be included as well. "The American-Soviet alliance is so flagrant," announced Nase, "that if there were women aboard the warships of these two powers, there would be dancing every night on the decks." Then he added: "You know very well, you American imperialists, that the so-called aid of the Soviet leaders is a vast fraud...