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Enver Hoxha (pronounced Ho-jah) sees enemies everywhere. He accuses neighboring Yugoslavia and Greece of planning to partition Albania between them, and he jailed an admiral of the Albanian navy (four subchasers, six minesweepers) as a collaborator in the farfetched plot. More recently he has developed a paranoid fear of Nikita Khrushchev. He apparently suspects that Khrushchev might try to bring Yugoslavia back into the Moscow fold by offering Tito a free hand to take over Albania. Hoxha has found one dependable ally, who is a safe 3,000 miles away-Red China. Alone among the European satellites, Albania openly...
Shehu seems to have asked for it. Albania is the one European satellite which seems to have chosen Peking in the intramural ideological conflict between Russia and Red China. In June, when Khrushchev summoned all the satellite party chiefs to Bucharest to ratify his policy of "peaceful" coexistence, Albanian Party Secretary Enver Hoxha was the only top Communist boss missing. At the U.N., Shehu was noticeably more vigorous than Khrushchev in speaking up for admission of Red China, impudently echoing Red China's scornful charge that Russian Communism is losing its ideological militancy because it is afraid of nuclear...
...learned during childhood studies at Tirana's American Vocational School. Despite his soft speech and crisp good grooming, Shehu is known as the "Butcher of Albania" for his bloody suppression of anti-Communists as boss of Albania's secret police; at a 1950 meeting of the Albanian Cabinet, he reportedly shot an argumentative colleague dead over the conference table. His chief political stock in trade is his implacable hatred of Yugoslavia. Since Moscow's latest falling-out with Tito, this has apparently led Khrushchev to favor Shehu over Albania's First Party Secretary Enver Hoxha...
...clutch of former Spanish Loyalists for whom the only important enemy remains Generalissimo Franco. "I am absolutely not interested in Khrushchev," spat one of the Spaniards, a remark that could equally well have been made by the three interned Nationalist Chinese consular employees or the former Royal Albanian Army officer turned house painter. Among the Spaniards was famed peasant General Gonzales, known as "El Campesino." who. after quarreling with his Communist comrades of the Spanish Civil War was imprisoned in the notorious Vorkuta Arctic Circle prison camp, from which he later escaped. Said he angrily: "We who are here...
...Papadimitriou put together all his information from ancient sources and began to probe the ground at Vravron, now called Vraona, and inhabited by Albanian-speaking villagers, who grow tomatoes and cucumbers. Soon he found fragments of carved marble, which led him step by step toward the buried ruins of Diana's shrine. First to be found was the ceremonial "tomb" of Diana. Last June the overturned but well-preserved columns of the temple itself came to light. This month the diggers unearthed a magnificent stoa (portico) which can easily be restored. Many of the carved stones were in remarkably...