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Floodlit Formal. As Chen Yi left Pakistan, China's Premier Chou En-lai arrived. He had flown to Rumania for the funeral of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, stopped at Tirana, capital of Albania, Peking's most distant and tiniest ally, and jetted on to Algeria and Egypt where he reportedly urged Ahmed ben Bella and Gamal Abdel Nasser not to invite Russia to the second Bandung-style conference of Afro-Asian nations scheduled for June in Algiers. Chou's point: despite its possession of Siberia, Russia is essentially a European country...
...Distant Thunder" documents Europe's deepening crisis in the '30s: Munich, the Nazi seizure of Czechoslovakia, Italy's march into Albania, and, finally, Hitler's invasion of Poland and the outbreak of World...
...other hand, Americans may well retain their distaste for totalitarianism as well as for dictatorships--for conditions in Albania and China as well as for those in Angola and the Union of South Africa. It is an extremely difficult policy, that of reconciling the concern for social justice of the radicals with the sense of power-realities of the old-line liberals, but it has one advantage: The Chinese are unlikely to prove any more popular in their attempts to run other people's countries than have the Americans. Then, in the struggle for world begemony, the vital ingredient...
...East, began to get back on their feet politically and economically, and today the United States is no longer the only important economic and political power. On the Communist side, the absolute control of the Soviet Union has been successfully challenged, and now not only Yugoslavia, but also China, Albania and, to a lesser extent, other Communist nations of Eastern Europe are following policies directed to their own national interests. Long-frozen positions are beginning to thaw, and in the shifting currents of international affairs there will be new opportunities for us to enhance the security of the free world...
Vatican officials see no improvement in countries where persecution of small Catholic minorities has been most severe-Albania, Bulgaria, Rumania, East Germany-and Vatican-Soviet relations are in cold storage. Moreover, the church is aware that any concessions offered represent tactical maneuvers, not any real reduction of Marxist hostility to religion. Thus, for the time being, Pope Paul hopes to obtain not a modus vivendi but a modus non moriendi (a way of not dying...