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...Spanish civil war he fought in the Red-led Garibaldi Brigade. He went back to Albania in 1942 to lead the Tito-organized resistance movement along with Hoxha. In 1945 Shehu was shipped to Moscow, returned the next year to become chief of staff of the Albanian army and general secretary of the party. He is Albania's only Moscow-trained Communist leader. Shehu, a 100-proof career Stalinist, has more ability, guile, circumspection and hardheadedness than Hoxha...
Last week, Albanian anti-Communist emigres in Rome reported a hair-raising story of Shehu's Stalinesque qualities: at a central committee meeting in Tirana several weeks ago attended by an unnamed Soviet colonel, a complaint was made by Vice Minister of Industry Abedin Shehu (no kin to Mehmet Shehu) that Albania was not getting from Russia the military help it needed "to defend itself from Yugoslavia and Greece." In the course of a committee wrangle over this, Abedin Shehu was accused of Trotskyism...
Koci Xoxe, Albanian Interior Minister, was shot in June...
Spokesmen for Albania and Bulgaria had been invited to answer amply documented charges made by UNSCOB (U.N.'s Special Committee on the Balkans). Instead of answering, the Albanian representative attacked the Greek government, saying that it cherished "mad" territorial designs on his country and that it had committed no less than 1,565 "armed provocations." Some of them, he added solemnly, were led by U.S. General James Van Fleet. Furthermore, said the Bulgarian spokesman, UNSCOB was a hand-picked group coached by the Greek "monarcho-fascists...
...guerrillas had been defeated in Greece, but the West feared that new attacks might be launched from Albanian and Bulgarian soil. The U.S., Britain, China and Australia introduced a motion asking for an embargo on arms to Albania and Bulgaria, until they were certified by UNSCOB as having stopped all aid to Greek Communists. Last week the embargo motion was approved by the U.N. Assembly's Political Committee, with only the Communist bloc (including Yugoslavia) voting against...