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Pravda and Izvestia printed friendly articles about Albania, and the Soviet Union dispatched fraternal greetings on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the "liberation" of Albania from Axis occupation. It was wasted effort. Albania flexed its puny muscles with an 85-minute parade through Tirana's normally trafficless streets, and the military display included a few rockets, probably donated by Red China. Albanian Party Boss Enver Hoxha ranted his way through a three-hour speech hailing the removal of Khrushchev but blasting the new Soviet leadership for its failure to rehabilitate Stalin, who, said Hoxha, was a great...
Lately, some Soviet judges and lawyers, disturbed by this one-sided setup, have stirred up a strenuous debate on the procurator's prerogatives. Writing in Izvestia last week, the Soviet Union's highest judge declared that a defendant should not be presumed guilty simply because the procurator says so. "Only the court can decide in the name of the state whether a person is guilty," wrote Soviet Supreme Court President Alexander Gorkin. At least that's what it said in Izvestia...
...return for the Chinese agreement to attend the meeting, however modified, there seemed to be at least token resumption of Russian aid to the Chinese. Tass reported that a 20,000-kw. turbine, built by the Russians for a Chinese hydroelectric project, would soon be delivered; Izvestia ran a photo of a Russian engineer supervising pro-Peking North Koreans building a technical school...
Ehrenburg is at his best when he is simply reporting what he saw. Assigned by Izvestia to cover the Spanish Civil War, he is sharp, biting, witty. He describes how the Anarchists, numbering in the tens of thousands, caused havoc in Republican ranks. Not believing in law, order or discipline, they confiscated all cash in areas they controlled, cut off all medical supplies on the grounds that "nature is a better healer." Ehrenburg showed them Soviet films on proper revolutionary behavior, but the Anarchists laughed in all the wrong places...
According to the Italians, Nikita has been granted a monthly pension of 1,000 rubles ($1,111 at the official exchange rate). Not so lucky was Son-in-Law Adzhubei, who had been stripped of his influential job as Izvestia's editor...