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...debate followed the script closely enough. In his role as chief executor of Peking's will in New York, Albania's swart Foreign Minister Nesti Nase rasped that Chiang's government "does not represent anything." He demanded swift adoption of the so-called Albanian resolution, which prescribes the seating of the Peking regime and immediate expulsion of the Nationalists. Taipei's embattled Foreign Minister Chow Shu-kai replied heatedly that if Peking has its way, "the era of collective aggression is upon us." The Nationalists' future hangs on the fate of the U.S. proposal...
Farthest out of all was Foreign Minister Nesti Nase of Peking-lining Albania, who proposed a formal resolution to condemn not only Israel but also the U.S. and Britain. Russia, he indicated, should really be included as well. "The American-Soviet alliance is so flagrant," announced Nase, "that if there were women aboard the warships of these two powers, there would be dancing every night on the decks." Then he added: "You know very well, you American imperialists, that the so-called aid of the Soviet leaders is a vast fraud...
Life is grim on Amami Oshima, an island in the typhoon-swept East China Sea, 200 miles southwest of Japan. The islanders are beset by leprosy, poverty, poisonous snakes, and fire. Again and again, storm-spread fires have all but wiped out the wooden shanties of Nase, the island's largest town (pop. 43,000). This month such a fire razed one of Nase's poorest sections-and blazed up into an ideological battle between a Communist and a Christian...
Father Lukaszweski, 35, shimpu-san (priest) of a flock of 3,000, went to Nase in 1952 straight from four years of working among the poor in Bridgeport. When he arrived, he spoke no Japanese; today he sometimes has to search for the right word in English. He and two other Franciscan priests (both American) and two lay brothers tour the island by jeep-and when the jeeps break down, on foot. "We count distances not in miles but in mountains climbed," says Father Jerome...
Translations of Heine and Der Zwerg Nase are ready in the book room...