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...Ankara last week the Turkish General Staff suspended talks with a British military mission after a month of inconclusive palaver. Premier Sükrü Saracoglu immediately called in foreign correspondents, gave them a 50-minute exposition of Turkey's present position. The effect of his talk: Turkey is still sympathetic to the Allied cause but is not yet ready to fight...
First Light. When Moscow published the British denial, the Russian press took pains to couple the item with an otherwise innocuous Ankara dispatch to the London Sunday Times (no relation to the Times of London). This report said that Ambassador Franz von Papen asked the Turks, two months ago, to relay a German proposal that the Wehrmacht voluntarily retreat to prewar boundaries in the west, in return get a "limited free hand in the east." The Sunday Times said that the Turks refused to act, and that nothing came of Ribbentrop's advances. But Russians, reading about it, were...
Sweden's press, starting point of many an international rumor chase, is also home base for the misleading headline. Example: "RUSSIAN TROOPS TO ITALY?", followed by a story quoting Bern speculation based on Ankara reports that Soviet participation in the Advisory Council for Italy might logically involve-"who knows?"-Russian troops...
...From Ankara came a footnote. London Daily Express Correspondent Cedric Salter quoted an unnamed Rumanian who saw Hitler four weeks ago: "I would not say that the war has changed Hitler much outwardly, but of late it has developed one side of his character abnormally. Before the war he was half mystic, half brutal opportunist. The opportunist has faded and with his growing personal solitariness he has become more & more otherworldly. He sleeps badly . . . rarely rises before 10:30 or 11... insists upon being alone for at least an hour each day. . . . His habits are even simpler than they were...
Capitulation and Risk. Roosevelt, Churchill, Inönü talked for three days. With them were Menemencioglu and Russia's smart, smooth Ambassador to Ankara Sergei Vinogradov. Afterward, an ambiguous, labored communiqué could not conceal that: 1) Turkey, risking war, had granted everything short of war; 2) the understanding at Cairo may have lessened but had not erased the differences between the Turks and Russians. The communiqué mentioned "closest unity" between Turkey, the U.S. and Britain. It referred to the "identity of interests and views of the great American and British democracies with those of the Soviet...