Word: albania
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...tiny Albania, seizing any excuse to defy the Soviets, was gushing Stalin's praise. All over the country, monuments to the dead dictator were hung with garlands of flowers; Tirana newspapers published his picture and babbled their "love and profound respect for his teachings," Red China might also have been expected, to use the occasion to glorify Stalin's memory, but remembering the dictator's open distrust of his Asian comrades, Peking chose not to be hypocritical...
...this gloomy picture there stood out an amazing fact. Four countries, two in the East and two in the West, had participated to a greater or lesser extent in their own liberation. Yugoslavia and Albania defy Russia today partly because they rose against the Germans initially without Soviet aid. And in the West, it was Italy and France who helped the Americans drive out Hitler. Raymond Aron has written: "If France had not taken part in her own liberation, she would have had to under-take the heavy task of reconstruction in an atmosphere of grief and humiliation...
Yugoslavia diplomatic relations with Albania are "all but broken," a press attache from the Yugoslavian embassy said Wednesday night. He cited Albanian guerrillas operating in Yugoslavia and a barbed-wire frontier as two causes of the tense situation...
Speaking before the International Relations Council, Cvijete Job asserted that Albania and the Chinese have been "very bestial to us. Since 1953 China has gone out of her way to attack us." There has been a "constant campaign of slander" conducted by the Chinese, he said, and relations with them are "most tenuous...
...British entry. Why Adenauer should be so addressed is unclear, since it takes only France's vote to bar Britain from the Market now or ever. A German blackball would be not only unlikely but redundant. Evidently, when Washington says Germany they mean France, just as when Moscow says Albania they mean China...