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...time Numan entered the Foreign Office at Ankara in 1929 as a departmental head, foreign attaches already knew this sick young man with an abscessed lung and deficient hearing as a cold, hard, calculating bargainer. When, 22 months ago, Numan's gradual ascent up the Foreign Office ladder brought him to the top rung as Minister, no one was surprised...
...Ankara, Stirbey talked at length with British diplomats. The Russians ignored him. Then, just before he left for Cairo, Stalin switched his instructions, had his envoy urge the Prince to call first of all on Nicholas Novikov, ranking Russian plenipotentiary in the Middle East...
...without: 1) Puppet-Dictator Marshal Ion ("Red Dog") Antonescu's permission; 2) the Gestapo's connivance. Some could see a telltale in the way the Gestapo detained Princess Elise a week at the Bulgarian border as a British subject, then inexplicably let her follow her father to Ankara. The Princess' husband, Major Edward Boxhall, now in the War Office in London, formerly represented armament-makers Vickers-Armstrong in Rumania. The Prince himself formerly headed Rumania's powerful Steaua Romana Oil Co., a big operator in the Ploesti fields...
...reminded readers of a United Press report from Ankara that the Turkish price for entering the war was 300 planes and 500 tanks, and that this "absolutely picayune" payment, this "inconsequential dribble" had not been made. "So far," the Ankara authority told U.P., "not a single tank or plane has been delivered. All we got were beautiful words...
...tied and fresh after a week's rest, the President leaned back behind a vase of red carnations and casually dropped a bombshell that rattled chancellery chandeliers from London to Berlin to Ankara...