Word: anatolia
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...delegation from Anatolia College in Salonika, Greece, visited Widener Library yesterday to study American library methods and to make a plea for books for their war-ravaged shelves...
...forum also heard Ernest Riggs, president of Anatolia College at Thessaloniki, Greece, and Sterling Dow '25, professor of Greek and History, join in the plea for swift application of the Truman doctrine...
Turkey's importance at this stage of the war is geographical. The rugged plateau of Anatolia, insufficiently equipped though it is with roads or railways, is a bridge from the Middle East to one of Europe's softest spots, the Balkans. The islands just off Turkey's southern and southwestern coast are steppingstones for the sea road to an attack on Greece. And in the Middle East, across the bridge and beyond the steppingstones. Allied armies are growing...
Turkey, moved to evacuate civilians from European Turkey including Istanbul, offered free transportation to those who would go eastward across the Sea of Marmara or the Bosporus into vast, hilly Anatolia. But at week's end only a few thousands had applied. The only inference from such an attempt at evacuation was that Turkey feared invasion and if invaded intended to fight...
...Tacoma's crew were five Chinese laundrymen off the Spee, who were found asleep below decks on the Tacoma when Uruguayan naval authorities boarded her. They, looking innocent, were not interned. They hoped for the same treatment which Uruguay gave to 108 Chinese crewmen of the German merchantmen Anatolia and Nienburg, who mutinied, refused to sail out of Montevideo when war was declared. Last week Uruguay shipped them on the Italian Oceania to Genoa, whence another Italian vessel will take them to Shanghai...