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They said of the Vietnamese people’s great battle to liberateDien Bien Phu that it was “not a gesture of goodwill”. 14. Subversion against Albania. The Tito clique has beencarrying on subversive activities and armed provocationsagainst socialist Albania for a long time. It has engineered fourmajor cases of treason, in 1944, 1948, 1956 and 1960. Its armedprovocations on the Yugoslav-Albanian border numbered morethan 470 from 1948 to 1958. In 1960 the Tito clique and theGreek reactionaries planned an armed attack on Albania inco-ordination with the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean.5. The counter-revolutionary rebellion in Hungary. TheTito clique played a shameful role of an interventionist provocateurin the Hungarian counter-revolutionary rebellion inOctober 1956. After the outbreak of the rebellion, Tito publisheda letter supporting the counter-revolutionary measuresof the traitor Nagy. On November 3 the Tito clique badeNagy seek asylum in the Yugoslav Embassy in Hungary. Ina speech on November 11, Tito characterized the counter-revolutionaryrebellion as resistance by “progressives” and impudentlyquestioned whether the “course of Yugoslavia” or the“course of Stalinism” would win.6. The Middle Eastern events. In 1958 troops were sentby U.S. imperialism to occupy Lebanon and by British imperialismto occupy Jordan. There arose a world-wide waveof protest demanding the immediate withdrawal of the U.S.and British troops. At the emergency session of the U.N. GeneralAssembly on the Middle Eastern situation, Koča Popović,State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia, said that“it is not a question of whether we insist on condemning orapproving the actions taken by the United States and GreatBritain”. He advocated intervention by the United Nations,an organization which is under the control of U.S. imperialism.7. The event in the Taiwan Straits. In the autumn of 1958,the Chinese People’s Liberation Army shelled Quemoy in1Borba, May 8, 1954.168