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...first, Arthur went to public schools in Cambridge. "To Middle Westerners," his father once wrote, "popular education was an article of faith." But faith dissolved when Arthur's high-school history teacher solemnly informed her class that people from Albania are called Albinos because of their white hair and pink eyes, and at 13, Arthur was packed off to Exeter. He was two years younger than most of his classmates, a confirmed liberal in a conservative prep school, and an indifferent athlete. "He wasn't one of the boys," said a classmate. History was his solace...
...Albania & Albinos. Not that Schlesinger minds. As the heir to a proud historical tradition, he was encouraged from his earliest days to hold the mirror up to everything, past and present, and to declare his judgment of what he saw. His judgments were loud and clear and precociously decisive. Says a friend: "Arthur has always had to contend with an enormous coalition of the envious and the aggrieved-those who are jealous of his talents and those who have suffered from them...
...EASTERN EUROPE. The U.S. has diplomatic relations, but not consular agreements, with all European Communist countries except Albania and East Germany. U.S. tourists have no legal rights in the Western sense, but neither should they fear being treated any worse than Communist citizens. Checking in at the U.S. consulate is the first thing to do in all Communist countries. As for "don'ts," the list is long: Don't criticize officials, disobey police, lose documents, carry letters for anyone, or photograph shabby people and military installations (including civilian bridges, airports and railroad stations). A Communist legal tour...
Nascent Nationalism. At first, Sofia tried to make it appear that the plotters were members of a pro-Peking faction working against Bulgaria's Russian protectors. They even planted a story that General Anev had fled to sanctuary in Albania, Red China's nearby ally. But it was not that simple. Anev was actually captured in his native village near the Yugoslav border, in a region long noted for its opposition to foreign invaders-Russian or otherwise. There, 20 years ago, he and Todorov-Gorunya had led an anti-Nazi guerrilla group...
Died. Lieut. General Alfredo Guzzoni, 88, one of Italy's most decorated soldiers, who led Mussolini's troops to victory in Albania in 1939, directed Il Duce's back-door attack on France in 1940, ignominiously ended his career in Sicily in the 1943 Allied invasion; of bronchial complications; in Rome...