Hoxha Is a Balkan

E. v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

I know that not only Americans but most Europeans as well are utterly bewildered by the curious three-cornered fight now going on in the Balkans. In order to understand what is happening, let us for the moment forget about the Chinese intervention, an extraneous factor which merely confuses the local issues. The Albanian Government under Enver Hoxha is Communist— it has long been anti-Titoist — and now is embroiled in an ideologically-disguised squabble with Moscow. To whom can the Albanians turn for aid if they refuse to bow to the West? Since they are using “orthodoxy” as an excuse for the rift, the only place left for them to go is China. Hence the curious entente uniting a tiny country fifty miles from Italy with Mao Tse-tung’s restive China.

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E. v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

I know that not only Americans but most Europeans as well are utterly bewildered by the curious three-cornered fight now going on in the Balkans. In order to understand what is happening, let us for the moment forget about the Chinese intervention, an extraneous factor which merely confuses the local issues. The Albanian Government under Enver Hoxha is Communist— it has long been anti-Titoist — and now is embroiled in an ideologically-disguised squabble with Moscow. To whom can the Albanians turn for aid if they refuse to bow to the West? Since they are using “orthodoxy” as an excuse for the rift, the only place left for them to go is China. Hence the curious entente uniting a tiny country fifty miles from Italy with Mao Tse-tung’s restive China.