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Charging angrily that Albania "deliberately keeps aggravating relations with the Soviet Union," Russia last week ordered its ambassador in Tirana to pack up and come home. In turn, Albania's ambassador was ordered out of Moscow, while the two countries traded accusations of having bugged each other's embassies. It was the first time that two Red nations severed diplomatic relations (not even in 1948, when Stalin had his furious break with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, were diplomatic ties ruptured...
Ever since the 22nd Party Congress, when Khrushchev publicly denounced Albania for its defiance of his anti-Stalin line, the tiny country has been the surrogate through which Moscow and Peking have fought each other. By formally breaking with Albania, Khrushchev is now serving notice that he will not conciliate Peking, is forcing the Red Chinese either to come to heel or else publicly widen the split. Meanwhile. Albania gleefully continues to defy Moscow as Europe's last enclave of Stalin-style Communism...
Peeling Gumshoes. Elsewhere in Communist Europe, the once familiar busts and images have disappeared, but recent visitors to Albania, notably a group of German journalists, still find the old Stalin pictures-and the old Stalin touch-in a ramshackle Balkan setting. In the capital city of Tirana, wide Skanderbeg Square boasts three white-uniformed traffic cops on duty-but no traffic for them to direct. Heavily-armed police and soldiers stand guard before ministries and embassies, on street corners, in parks, in front of and behind hotels. Other guards, toting machine guns, pace before the residences of top Red officials...
Then there is the required reading, beginning each morning with the 30 or 40 pages of Hsinhua (the Communist New China News Agency) and the daily Peking radio transcript. It is turgid, tendentious and tedious. But the attention that the Chinese Communists give to Albania, or to confessions of crop failures in one province or another, provide clues to explore. A small colony of experts from the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany and Japan does the same job in Hong Kong, and there is much pooling of information. The U.S. consulate assembles a massive and useful Survey of the Mainland...