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Djilas' latest book, Conversations with Stalin, is painfully embarrassing to Tito. Any revelation of intimate Kremlin secrets might upset delicate Soviet-Yugoslav relations. The book discloses details of Tito's plan to move two army divisions into neighboring Albania and take over the Communist satellite. In January 1948, Djilas reports, Stalin enthusiastically supported the scheme, told the author: "You ought to swallow up Albania, the sooner the better."* But a few days later, the Soviet dictator changed his mind, fearing Tito's increased influence in the Balkans. Hastily, Stalin sent a telegram to Belgrade warning that...
More fascinating even than the Czech Charleston is the country's ideological twist between Moscow and the Albania-China faction. Officially, Czechoslovakia backs Moscow, but Premier Antonin Novotny is an old Stalinist. Not only have the Czechs managed to keep on trading with Albania, but they have acted as Russia's representatives at Tirana since the Soviets severed diplomatic relations. Meanwhile, Prague's huge Stalin monument, which Novotny had promised to destroy, still stands. Some Prague wags suggest a solution for that: paint the monument black and rename it the Patrice Lumumba memorial...
...Outer Mongolia the favor of shouldering it into the U.N., and boosted its economic aid to $975 million, clearly overshadowing Peking's handout of $115 million. Last week the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party put its mouth where its money is and denounced Albania's "malicious and slanderous attacks" on Moscow. The Mongolian Reds also dared to criticize Red China for not submitting to Soviet ideological supremacy, and dutifully de-stalinized their own late dictator, Khorlogiin Choibalsan (1895-1952), whose last reported resting place was a stalinesque red stone mausoleum in the center...
...PEKING, the parties of Albania, Australia, North Korea, North Viet...
...tough old soldier who defected from the Kuomintang and fought alongside Mao Tse-tung during the famed Long March in the '30s, Peng was the leader of the conservative faction of the Chinese politburo. While on a trip to Albania in May 1959, he secretly told Nikita Khrushchev of his strong opposition to Mao's agricultural commune system. With Khrushchev's encouragement, Peng returned to China and denounced Mao's Great Leap Forward as "petty bourgeois fanaticism." At a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee in August 1959, Peng said that...