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Second Frontling? Into the reports of fresh German concentrations in Greece, Crete and the nearby Axis islands Ankara correspondents read: 1) a Nazi threat to Turkey and the whole Near East between Suez and the Caucasus; 2) the need for an immediate Allied move in the Near East to counteract the threat. The British, choosing big, 60-year-old General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo'') Wilson to command a new independent army in Iraq and Persia, were perhaps preparing such a move...
...Grew's long diplomatic life in Mexico City, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna and Ankara fully revealed, T.R. had had nothing to fear. Grew had grace and kindliness, quiet firmness when it was demanded, a subtle understanding of foreign temperaments and manners...
...Banner. Ankara's rumor mills last week ground out the report that Joseph Stalin was on his way from Moscow to Stalingrad, one of the southern cities which Timoshenko was trying to save. If the story was true, it completed a parallel of Red Army history: Timoshenko fought at Stalingrad (then Tsaritsyn) after the Revolution, when the White Armies of Denikin and Kolchak were trying to crush the new Russia, and (according to orthodox Communist history) Stalin himself superseded the Red generals, saved the city and Russia with a series of campaigns over the land where the Nazis advanced...
...that anyone would admit was that the planes had landed in Turkey. Three of the bug-bellied, four-engined B-24s settled snugly on Ankara's airdrome, disgorging 21 jubilant men & officers in U.S. Army Air Force uniforms. One crashed near Ismit, between Ankara and Rumania's Nazified oil fields, with a Messerschmitt on its tail and the marks of Turkish anti-aircraft fire on its seamed skin. The official report was that they...
Where these Army bombers had been could only be guessed. Where they were headed was clear enough: three other B24s flew safely over Turkey and on toward Syria. Said one of the officers in Ankara: "We accomplished our mission in the Black Sea"—a statement which could cover bombings of Rumanian wells, an attack on the German besiegers to relieve endangered Sevastopol, assaults on the Nazi-held Russian port of Odessa, or blasting Axis ships in the Black Sea to prevent German landings in the Caucasus. Correspondents hazarded all these guesses, with emphasis on the oilfield bombings...