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...trying to rule them, the Communists have involved themselves in a succession of purges and intramural rivalries. Last week a long-simmering feud between Albania's Premier Enver Hoxha and its Red police chief boiled up anew. When the steam lifted, handsome Hoxha was out and Colonel General Mehmet Shehu, hard-boiled army chief of staff and Minister of Interior, was in as Premier of Albania. Hoxha apparently still hung on to his job as head of the Albanian Communist Party...
...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 war, was a partisan in Albania during World War II, went through advanced training in Moscow...
...before it is too late to extend the scope of American help to Turkey . . . Turks are willing to fight. They are good soldiers (ask their enemies) . . . In the last 300 years they have fought the Russians in 13 wars totaling 51 years, one year out of every six! If Mehmet is called again to fight the Moskovs, he must be given a fair chance for the sake of the free world...
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...
According to the emigre Albanians' story, Mehmet Shehu pulled out a revolver and killed Abedin Shehu on the spot. The next day Radio Tirana reported that Abedin Shehu had committed suicide. "As a result there have been many arrests. In Tirana four buildings in Dibra Street have been converted into prisons...