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...Since Tito's expulsion from the Cominform in 1948, Albania has been Moscow's only isolated satellite. Its 1,250,000 people, largely dirt poor and illiterate, are ruled by 48,000 Communists, who in turn owe allegiance to the handsome and savagely cruel Communist dictator, Enver Hoxha. Except for an occasional Soviet submarine putting in at Albania's Saseno naval base,* and risky air communications across mountainous and hostile Greece and Yugoslavia, Albania has no contact with the Soviet world. It has almost none with...
...Before Tito's break with Moscow, Albania's Communist Party was an appendage of Belgrade. The 1949 split led to anguished choices in Albania. Communists loyal to Moscow and those loyal to Tito engaged in bitter no-quarter warfare in which whole families were wiped out. Hoxha, who chose Stalin instead of Tito and came out on top, at one point acknowledged that 12,000 party members had been expelled or had "deserted" to Yugoslavia...
Last summer Congress was convinced that the Yugoslavs, despite massive injections of U.S. aid ($1 billion since 1949), were cozying up to the Kremlin. Under Knowland's prodding a rider to the Mutual Security Appropriation Act banned any new military assistance to Marshal Tito in fiscal 1957 except for maintenance and spare parts. Congress also stipulated that the Administration cut off all aid authorized in previous years and still "in the pipeline," e.g., some $100 million in military hardware, including some 300 Sabre-jet fighter-bombers. The cutoff could be waived if two conditions were met: i) that...
...finding of Yugoslav independence. Among the events: the Russian intervention in Hungary that brought the Moscow-Belgrade honeymoon to an end and has been followed by "renewed Soviet harassment of Yugoslavia." Result: the U.S., with Ike's approval, will send its shipments of heavy equipment to help Tito defend himself-but deliveries will be made on a "more modest" scale than originally planned; e.g., only 75-80 of the promised jets will be released this year...
Foreign friends, fearing rheumatoid arthritis, began to organize a petition to Tito (sunbathing by the Adriatic) for an easing of Djilas' sentence. Yet such are the political advantages of being in Mitrovica, by this time a tradition in Yugoslav government, that Djilas himself, a firm believer in the historical process, was reported quite cheerful about his miserable condition, saying: "It proves to the Yugoslav people that I am not a Communist...