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Albania's Tito-built Communist Party, still loyal to Stalin, summoned its leaders to a crisis conclave this week. As 360 delegates converged on Tirana (pop. 30,800), it looked very much as if Party Boss Enver Hoxha was being superseded by Party General Secretary Mehmet Shehu...
...Albania in the face of anti-Red guerrillas in the mountains and of heresy in the party. To do it, he must have a local boy as a front. Enver Hoxha has been the front so far. But Chuvakhin's fair-haired boy seems to be Mehmet Shehu...
...father, the late Hadji Mehmet, was the most important and feared man of the district. Galloping horsemen slowed down when they passed our house at dawn so as not to wake Hadji Mehmet. Roosters crowed in the name of Hadji Mehmet. But even he died. Nothing is forever. When I was a child, there were seven of us in the village who went to school to learn to read and write from the hoca. I was the richest of the seven, and all I had was my dress and a pair of red slippers. Today even I am not satisfied...
...Died. Mehmet Munir Ertegun, 61, reserved, brush-mustachioed Turkish Ambassador to the U.S., dean of Washington's Diplomatic Corps, onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and to France, expert on Turkish law; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...diplomatic incidents, Nazi, British, French, Russian, Finnish envoys avoided each other with frigid finesse. Near-incidents: 1) Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumansky almost bumped into Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope, but just in time handsome Mr. Procope turned aside toward the chocolate cookies. 2) Rumors spread that the fancy pants of Mehmet Munir Ertegun, Turkish Ambassador, split slightly as he bowed before the President. No one could confirm this rumor, as the Ambassador stood poker-faced with his back to the wall most of the evening...