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...Same End. With the two major Red powers locked in a struggle for leadership, and East and West choosing sides, little Albania at week's end was sounding more and more like the voice of the opposition. From Tirana, the Albanian radio sneered at Khrushchev as an "anti-Marxist" and a "splitter" of Communist unity. The radio crowed: "We shall win because we are not alone. Albania will not bow before the attacks, calumnies or pressures of Khrushchev and his followers...
With Chinese aid money and technicians pouring into Tirana, Peking has its first foothold in Europe. And the two new pals seem to be drawing closer together all the time, as Moscow must have noticed with a wince last week. While the press and radio of every other Communist country ran long excerpts of Nikita Khrushchev's TV fireside chat, there was not even a mention of it in the propaganda organs of Peking and Tirana...
...soldier who won his military spurs in the Red-led Garibaldi Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, got his final polishing at Moscow's Voroshilov Military Academy. The son of a mullah, Shehu is the only satellite leader who speaks English, which he learned during childhood studies at Tirana's American Vocational School. Despite his soft speech and crisp good grooming, Shehu is known as the "Butcher of Albania" for his bloody suppression of anti-Communists as boss of Albania's secret police; at a 1950 meeting of the Albanian Cabinet, he reportedly shot an argumentative colleague...
...visit only after getting due permission. Ironically enough, it is that old target of Kremlin abuse, Marshal Tito, who has to give the permission-to fly across the Yugoslav territory that separates Albania from the other satellites. Last week, as Khrushchev's jet TU-104 streaked toward Tirana with Tito's consent, the Soviet leader wired: "As I am flying over your territory, I send you warmest congratulations on your [67th] birthday...
Among Communists who played court to the big boss was Red China's touring Defense Minister, who turned up in Tirana. Belgrade further reported that "most" Eastern European satellites had asked and received permission to send planes across Yugoslavia with unspecified passengers for Albania. It could hardly be said that the party big wheels had picked a Communist show place to gather in. But then the Khrushchev party's next stop is Hungary...