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...Slight Thaw. Rumanian foreign policy favors Soviet-style peaceful coexistence, but Dej himself was as much a Stalinist as Mao. A onetime shoemaker's apprentice, he used Stalin's backing to oust Ana Pauker, the Communist Amazon, in 1952. His regime, despite some slight thawing, maintains just about the greyest, grimmest police state in Europe. Not until last year were 10,000 of his 12,000 political prisoners released...
There was a time of so-called thaw in the cold war, not many weeks ago, when such probing toward peace would have been considered the mainstream of the news. Last week, while the conferees talked of the rule of law and of order in the world, the top news was of chaos and of an enemy in Asia who growled that "peaceful coexistence is out of the question." It was to the hard issues of how to face that enemy that the editors turned for the lead story in THE NATION and the cover story in THE WORLD...
...Communist side, the absolute control of the Soviet Union has been successfully challenged, and now not only Yugoslavia, but also China, Albania and, to a lesser extent, other Communist nations of Eastern Europe are following policies directed to their own national interests. Long-frozen positions are beginning to thaw, and in the shifting currents of international affairs there will be new opportunities for us to enhance the security of the free world and thereby our own security. But there will also be new problems which will have to be faced, particularly how best to maintain the unity of the free...
...shoe lovingly plucked from an ash heap in Warrenville, and topped it off with a corset that belonged to his mother. One still life required him to keep fish in the freezer for three months, taking them out for three hours a day. "As soon as they began to thaw, I would stick them back in the freezer," he explains. Title of this work? Ah God, Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering Sea. Why? Confesses Albright brightly, "It sounded better than A Bunch of Fish...
...split became public, Peking used little Albania as a sort of ventriloquist's dummy. Albania's fiercely anti-Khrushchev rulers said all the nasty things about Moscow that the Chinese obviously wanted to say themselves. Since Nikita Khrushchev's ouster amid signs of a Russian-Chinese thaw, the Communist world-and its observers in the West-have wondered whether the Albanian line might soften. Last week came the answer...