ALBANIA-WHERE STALIN IS STILL ON A PEDESTAL
has
SLIGHTLY smaller than Wales and sandwiched between Greece and Yugoslavia, Albania is Russia's smallest and thorniest satellite because it refuses to conform to Kruschev's line, and dictator Enver Hoxha sees that Stalin is still revered
Kruschev to reckon
with these
A
LBANIA'S struggle is not
just one by dictator Enver Hoxha to main- tain the cult
of
Stalin's personality,
women!
By
STEPHEN LOCHTIN
All three are in their early Moxha is the best-looking
whom Albanions forties. Nexni Vito Kapo is the continue to idolise toughest. against the wishes of Mr Kruschev.
Bruschey also has to with the Albartan women.
Important
thrue
women
They went to school together. They Were member, of the Communist Party together when 11 was arı underground move deal ment
are:
NOVEMBER 30, 1961.
INTELLIGENCE REPORT.
this country where it is only 16 years since women of the large- ly Mohammedan country were emancipated.
The
the lives of private three most important women in Albania are sevret. Their homes are in street of modern lux-
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SINCE the split appear- ed between Russia and Albania, three important questions have had to be considered by this satel Ite country.. . and by people in the West who have to forecast the future of the Communist empire:-
WHERE
...is Albania's money to come from now its Russian source has dried up? China has promised £45,000,000 to help the current five-year plan but this will not
go far.
An important Albanian Gov. ernment delegation is now in China negotiating for an increase in economic help.
HOW
ury. villas in Tirana. Policets Albania to feed herself -
watch to stop people who have no business there,
Fear
woman
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But even the life D powerful Albanian not easy. She lives in fear.
First the fear that her hu the band may die by an assassin's
and how can the maintain her communications with the out- side world?
There
is not enough home grown food and the Soviet air- lines are still her only air link with the outside world.
But first shipments of Canad- ian wheat have already been sent by China in the holds West German tramp steamers.
Communist Party, bomb-still favourite weapon WHAT
careers
Now they are members of the Central Committee of Albanian holding importani ONLE and to the Balkans. And second the wielding great influence behind fear that his and her
may be ended by an equally The scenes.
deadly political rumour.
Enver
and Prime Hoxha Minister Shehu are well pro lected against bombs by their army of policemen and inform-
of
...alternative
to there to the regime of Enver Hoxha and where could it come from?
The only serious candidate for rival Albanian leader is former Albanian Communist general Panajot Plaku, a former member of the Albanian Central Com- mittee. He fed to Yugoslavia in 1957.
And this means three women bitterly opposed to presem So-
Mrs Hoxha is director general Luse vlet policies, who are no
Culture in of the Institute of important than their husbands.
The
the party's central committee. Nexmi
Hoxha,
wife of the Mrs Shehu is second secre-
Party tary of
committees in party man who is Communist
IL leader in name but dielator in Tirana,
is said that the
It is the deadly rumour that fact, Fiqrete Shehu, wife of the Tirana police take orders from
may be Kruschev's chief The Albumian Government has Prima Minister, and Vito her before anyone else.
weapon in bringing about their several thres accused him of Mrs Albaniau
Kapo
women's downfall the
and that Kapo, leader of the
of their organsing attempts un the life wives leader, looms especially large in
of Enver Hoxha.
Women.
ers.
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Why can't Hollywood
RUSSIA ATTACKS leave
ITS WHIPPING BOY
By COLIN LAWSON
Fault
Warsaw, important orders from Czacho- alovakia and Hungary had to be 1940 most
ithless compisted. economic pressine is being brought to hear on tiny Albania by the Russian - dominated Commumist world direct orders from Mr Kruschev.
The
on
latest example of this I uncovered recently in Warsaw.
Poland has abruptly confis cated a 15,000-lon cargo ship just completed in the shipbuild- ing yards of Gdansk, which was built for Albanis.
A second ship nearing com- for dictator Hoxha's pletion country is to be kept for the
Polish mercantile feet.
Make no mistake about this
crisis within the Communist camp.
Albania is being used as the whipping-boy Tor the main ideo- logical quarrel between Russia and China.
Struggle
the
Not only this, but nearly 100 Albanian university students who re- studying in Warsaw, cently returned to Albania on
vacation, have failed to return.
Whose fault it is is an open question. I am unable to dis- cover whether the Poles refused to re-admit them or whether the Albanians refused to allow them to return.
Kruschey believes that be
the do without сал reonomically and that he can
the Bible
alone?
by
LEONARD MOSLEY
IF
a Hollywood film producer had ever Chinese approached me and said he was about really bind Eastern Europe into to make a full-scale epic about the life of with the Jesus Christ, my advice to him-without in
bloc which will an economic effectively west.
compete
•
The anti-Kruschev group be any way being blasphemous would have lieves that A much bigger been:-
les in future for Communism an all-in economic tie-up with Eastern bloc Bnd The the
Chinese.
It argues that the untouched int:81 bo potential of China added at all costs to the Russian-led world.
Kruschev, on the other hand,
that maintaina
the economic potential of Eastern Europe cannot wait for Chinese develop- ment.
And he has his eye on little Albania
Kruschev, well seated in pow- er, heads the anti-China faction. What is happening here and in Czechoslovakia and Hungary against little Albania mirrors the fundamental struggle be-
EVERYBODY in Albania tween the
two giants of Communist world.
is complaining about the The seizure of Albania's ship harshness of police rule.
under the The is dismissed legal phraseology, "Albania has not observed the clauses of her contract."
here
This hides the Albanians' ideological differences which are supported by the Chinese.
Thirty officers and men arrived in Gdansk from Albania to sall
the 15,000 tonner away.
The Poles told them: "The ship is not available. Go back home.
"
At the same time, I learn, an Albanian order for machine tools was rejected by Poland.
The excuse is that much more
takes public
its revenge by telling jokes about the low level of in- telligence among police- men. In Tirana people ask each other:-
Why do our policemen always have to patrol the streets in pairs?”
"For God's sake, don't,"
A Super Technirama sorsen is
to contain not broad enough story and an idea which have enriched men's minds for nearly 2,000 years.
Painful
trons. once
He believes that Jesus, caught, will perform a miracle and free himself—thus showing the people of Israel that He is their all-powerful leader.
Did you think that Barabbas was a thief?
film.
the contrary, says: the Barabbas was a wash-
buckling leader of a Jewisha underground move. patriots" ment.
No man in a beard and long the hair can possibly equal
which lives in image of Jenis people's hearts,
But Hollywood being Holly wood, and a dollar being * dollar they have done it and this film.
you that if you I can assure
have read your Bible and see the film you will find the ex- pertence painful.
For this is not the greatest story ever told. It is a whooped
extravaganza in
which up
Biblical facts are twisted,
Did you insigine, for instance, that aidas betrayed Jesus for so pieces of silver? -
The answer is: "Because one can only read and an- other only write."
London Express Service Master With the best of inten
There are a lot of other things about Jesus and his road to Calvary
which you did not know until producer Samuel Brunston came along and made
Travesty
There are, in fact, only twa villains in the whole,sad story. One is Pontius Plite tile to- mun Governor, the other king Herod.
"Ring of "King"
a sorry and cornetime
Only
Not in this film he does, traverty, "It is also appallingly He leads the Rothane to his spoken and
THE WETTEST NOVEMBER
ON RECORD
WEATHER in New South Wales heads the
newsletter this week when rain, which start-
ed falling on the Wednesday afternoon, after a very hot morning, carried on, almost unceasingly day and night until the following Tuesday morn- ing.
Altogether more than 15%
inches have fallen in and around Byron Bay also northern New Sydney in the five daye and this South Wales, eggs in Liverpool, makes it the wettest November
in the 101 years the Weather New South Wales, flour in Syd-
and brandy and has been keeping re-ney,
fruits in Mildura, Victoria.
Bureau cords.
dried
In a cloudburst on the city, He started his purchases in 2% inches of rain fell in one New South Wales and will hour. The Richmond and Wind- finish in Victoria.
sor district was very badly hit where about 1,800 people had to be evacuated from 350 homes, and several people lost their lives in flooded areas.
Damage in the Hawksbury district is estimated at £1 mil- lion. In one Instance a parked utility truck plunged into a hole
A fallout
Noah's Ark
40 feet wide and 30 feet deep Me &. C. Thomas, a Parramatta
dentist, is preparing to hazik anatomio fallout sluiter with room for 20 "anost, necessary people" in the form of an Ark.
when the stormi washed away the road, and a cottage was left hovering very close to the brink. The gates of the Warzagamba Dam automatically opened
birds, to under flood pressure and brought Like Noah, he will suse the level of the water down by determine the safety of lexy-
8 feet, though at one time it
was D feet over the top.
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All for a Xmas pudding
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Australian newsletter
–By EMH____
This dog surveyed a watery swept off the read by flood Valley.
shelfer in front sell his dental. A surgery: at: Parramatta on a 20 feet frontage to tlie méte The abelter will be 20 fest
15 feet and 12 feet --will be
treated with pitch, we vi
will lend dawna 1 shelter from the demon gery and it will be a1⁄4 inch stee, saated:
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