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...Italy's Chamber of Deputies, politicians howled with anger at the U.S. "America now needs Tito more than De Gasperi," they shouted. "What is the value of the Atlantic pact?" The cause of their rage was U.S. unwillingness to give full support to Italian claims on the Free Territory of Trieste...
...cold war. The U.S. had influenced the Italian elections of 1948 by announcing that it favored return of the whole Free Territory to Italy. Yugoslavia also had claims on the Trieste area, and Yugoslav troops occupied the southern part of it, known as Zone B. When Marshal Tito left the Russian camp, the U.S. and Britain, whose forces occupy the rest of the Free Territory, had reconsidered. Anxious to keep Tito firm in his heresy, they began to urge Italy and Yugoslavia to settle the dispute...
...surprisingly, candidates nominated by Marshal Tito's People's Front in Zone B were mainly unopposed, invariably elected...
...Maclean, by then a captain, was sent to Persia, where in broad daylight he kidnaped Collaborationist General Zahidi and popped him into a plane bound for Palestine. It was ro wonder that when Prime Minister Churchill asked for the appointment of "a daring Ambassador-leader" to contact Tito's "hardy and hunted guerrillas," the choice fell on parachuting Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean...
Four Prisons in Dibra Street. Shehu, now 37, was graduated from Albania's American Vocational School in 1932. In the Spanish civil war he fought in the Red-led Garibaldi Brigade. He went back to Albania in 1942 to lead the Tito-organized resistance movement along with Hoxha. In 1945 Shehu was shipped to Moscow, returned the next year to become chief of staff of the Albanian army and general secretary of the party. He is Albania's only Moscow-trained Communist leader. Shehu, a 100-proof career Stalinist, has more ability, guile, circumspection and hardheadedness than Hoxha...