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...Enlai, his hard face lined and bloodless, watched Africa drop behind him. In the course of his 53-day safari, he had toured ten nations, ranging from so traditional a monarchy as Morocco to so Red-hot a republic as Ghana, with time out for a side trip to Albania...
...south, Khrushchev's Red rival, Chinese Premier Chou Enlai, was also talking peace as he interrupted his current tour of Africa to visit his only pals in Europe-the Communists of Premier Enver Hoxha's Albania. In an interview on French television, taped while Chou was in Morocco, he came up with what, for him, was a startling thought: war between East and West is not inevitable. The remark was strictly for capitalist consumption, of course; in Albania, Chou found genuine enthusiasm for his usual militant opposition to the whole idea of Communist coexistence with the West...
...Chou's major success so far on his tour of North Africa was word that Tunisia, which has no diplomatic ties with either the Communists or the Chinese Nationalists, had decided to give diplomatic recognition to Peking. This week Chou interrupts his safari with a side trip to Albania. In Tirana, Red China's only ideological ally outside Asia, he will get that rare feeling of being a completely welcome guest...
...tour, lasting six weeks or more, will take Chou and two planeloads of advisers to at least nine "nonaligned" African countries, with a side trip to Albania, Red China's Eastern European satellite, and on the way home, a stop over in Pakistan. Competing with Moscow for friends among underdeveloped nations, Chou evidently wants to establish the yellow man's burden, even if China cannot exactly afford to pick it up. Among Afro-Asian countries, Peking's prestige has slumped badly as a result of its refusal to sign the nuclear test ban. In Africa alone...
...World Court decision, the other nation involved can complain to the Security Council, which may "decide upon measures to be taken to give effect to the judgment." Only on one occasion has a nation failed to abide by a ruling: after the court's very first decision, Albania refused to pay an indemnity that the court awarded to Britain for warships damaged by mines off the Albanian coast...