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...massive timber gate and electrified barbed-wire fence block the road between Yugoslavia and Albania-respectively, the most accessible and least accessible nations in the Communist world today. Armed guards on the Albanian side open the gate for authorized visitors, then bolt it behind them with a heavy padlock. Last week Roland Flamini of TIME's Vienna bureau, traveling as a "businessman" on a British passport, flew to Dubrovnik in Yugoslavia, where he joined a guided tour that took him to Albania for a two-day visit. His report...
Into the echoing marble depths of Peking's Great Hall of the People snaked line after line of restless Red Guards, still in the capital despite earlier orders to repair to their homes. The Great Hall is usually reserved for formal occasions: anti-imperialist operas, speeches by visiting Albanian dignitaries and the annual rubber-stamp session of the Chinese Parliament. As 10,000 Red Guards stared up at a triple-tiered ceiling studded with stars, Premier Chou En-lai appeared onstage. What ensued last week was the stiffest rebuke that the Guards have received to date-and an indication...
...tailored People's Liberation Army uniform topped by a soldier's fur hat. She sat in the front row near Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Chen Yi, who did not seem to mind when the cameras left them to zero in on her. While an Albanian song and dance troupe went through its paces, she peered through her thick-lensed glasses, smiled frozenly through buck teeth and applauded energetically. Thus last week, on film released by Peking and shown on Hong Kong TV, the world outside Red China got a rare glimpse of Chiang Ching...
...that China's Red Guards have demonstrated their ability to stir up trouble, why shouldn't Red China's European counterpart, Albania, have its own Red Guards? So, last week Albanian youths streamed into the 'mountains as "voluntary activists" to force collectivization on the 10% of the country that still can plant its own crops. Albania's Communist Party has begun burning books, slashing paintings, purging comrades as "decadent" and "soft " breaking down the old habits of the peasants." Albania's Ked Guards already number 10000 but that is just the beginning. Premier Mehmet...
Nevertheless, the stories on balance are often captivating, and two of them alone make the book well worth reading. The best is the title story, which tells of the deep friendship between a testy old Spanish fisherman and an Albanian sailor, neither of whom ever learns to speak the other's language. In Life Is an Operetta, Ustinov uses his expertise to write a deceptively simple account of a Hungarian singer who will linger in memory as the quintessential Hungarian female on the make...