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...been suspicious of the Moscow Conference; now they saw their suspicions confirmed. They declared that they would not come in until they knew exactly how they would stand with the U.S.S.R. after the war. They also made it plain that they would need air protection for Istanbul and Ankara, both highly vulnerable to bombing, and military aid in the event of a Nazi blitz from Bulgaria. There matters stood until Teheran...
...Axis proposal: "Italy has intimated reluctance to conclude a separate peace and is urging a general peace settlement which will include Germany. ... The Italian suggestion has been made through Turkey. The feeler is reported to have come directly from Foreign Minister Guariglia. Germany's Papan is busy in Ankara . . . insinuating to anyone willing to listen that if the United Nations try to impose merciless terms upon Italy which might be a precedent against Germany, then Hitler might seek peace with Russia...
Closest in personal relationship with Saracoglu is Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, Britain's Ambassador to Ankara. The two are often seen together in Ankara's nightclubs, which know the Prime Minister well. In the easy intimacy of the capital's drinking and dancing spots, British relations with Turkey have assumed a cordiality enjoyed by no other foreign power...
Since he became Prime Minister, Saracoglu sees fewer diplomats than formerly, but still receives them on most pressing matters in his big, comfortable office in the Prime Ministry- one of the rare buildings among Ankara's supermodern structures to preserve the Turkish style of architecture of overhanging roof and pleasant turquoise and red tile facing. Interviews are usually friendly, straightforward, eased along by the Prime Minister's ready smile and humor. He likes to be playful in conversation, but is tough-minded underneath his wisecracks. French is his only foreign language, but in the U.S. a dozen years...
Britain and Russia between them can-and may-cross up these plans. The idea of a Balkan campaign alone is disquieting to the Turks; a Balkan campaign which left them out of Balkan settlements would cause alarm in Ankara. With the war so close to their frontiers, Turkey's leaders might well consider that neutrality is not enough, that they can speak with authority at the peace table only on the basis of a comradeship-in-arms...