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ALONG the marshy banks of Lake Scutari on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, red-kerchiefed shepherdesses tend their flocks, and on the lake, fishermen in shallow wooden canoes spear fish with steel-tipped lances. Across the lake it is possible to see the outlines of the Albanian city of Scutari (pop. 29,000). That is just about the only view an outsider can get of Albania today, but from the stories that drift across the frontier, it is possible to piece together a more accurate picture. Albania is the only satellite state which is not joined geographically to the Soviet family...
...Butcher at Work. Russians occupy the chief positions in all Albanian government departments. Soviet Minister Dmitri Chuvakhin is reported to hold Albanian cabinet meetings in his own legation. Last important Albanian minister to be critical of the Russians was Deputy Premier Koci Xoxe, friend of Yugoslavia. He was executed in June 1949. Since then the Central Committee of the Albanian Workers' Party (Communist) has gone through several purges. The new Deputy Premier and Chief of Police is an Albanian named Mehmet Shehu (rhymes with say who), a Moslem who fought for Stalin in the Spanish civil...
From the start of the Ingrid Bergman-Roberto Rossellini affair, patient, friendly Mike Chinigo (pronounced Kinigo), an Albanian-born U.S. citizen, had cultivated the confidence of the excitable Italian film director. He was helped by the fact that he speaks fluent Italian, picked up at home, polished (after Yale) at the University of Rome, and perfected as a war correspondent in Sicily and Italy. Chinigo got Rossellini to cast him as the concentration camp boss in Stromboli, quietly picked up stray quotes from Ingrid during breaks in the shooting. His stories were invariably sympathetic. Last week Chinigo's friendship...
Cautiously Blandino added: "This has nothing to do with politics. It is entirely religious." But to other Italians, and other churchmen, his gesture did not seem entirely devoid of a political background. During World War II, Blandino had served as an army chaplain in the Albanian, Greek and North African campaigns. In 1943 he had joined Mussolini's diehard "Salo Republic" in northern Italy. Does he now sympathize with Fascist principles? Replies Blandino: "A call went out for chaplains to administer spiritual comfort. A priest must not interest himself in politics...
...Rome, homesick Albanian emigres listened attentively to what sounded like good news from home-a major Communist party split...