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...sunny morning in Ankara last week German Ambassador Franz von Papen's son, Franz Jr., recently wounded on the Russian front, was riding horseback with his blonde sister Stefanie and friends. They heard a faraway explosion. "It must be artillery practice," said Franz Jr. But it was not. It was Franz von Papen Sr. being bombed...
...high time the President found his man. Laurence A. Steinhardt returned from Moscow to the U.S. in November, was appointed to the vitally important post of Ankara, Turkey. In Washington is the U.S.S.R.'s highest-powered diplomat, Maxim Litvinoff, onetime Foreign Commissar, onetime Delegate to the League of Nations. Joseph Stalin was waiting for something equally handsome...
...Hopeful Axis businessmen would swarm here to buy themselves a Jewish department store or a mine for practically nothing. German generals, quiet and scholarly, would talk here of their old campaigns and think up new ones. At one time or another Franz von Papen, Hitler's ambassador to Ankara . . . would rest in the lobby. . . . Suave Dr. Clodius, Hitler's economic wizard, would recover his breath here after endless discussions with General Antonescu. . . . Even Frau Himmler, wife of the Gestapo chief, looking like Elsa Maxwell, came and ate big portions of whipped cream...
Steinhardt, who succeeds John Van A. MacMurray at Ankara, will work with Envoy-at-Large William Christian Bullitt, now in the Near East, and with his own successor in Moscow, probably Major General James H. Burns, a great admirer of the Russian Army...
Germany's foxy Ambassador to Turkey Franz von Papen last week found a sly way of increasing Turkey's worry over its position between Adolf Hitler and the Suez and Near Eastern oil. About to leave Ankara for a visit to Berlin, he delivered to Turkey's President Ismet Inönü a parting gift. It consisted of a learned volume on "grave excavations in Turkey...