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...Fascists, he crossed to Yugoslavia, just in time to meet the Germans coming in, narrowly missed a grenading by an advance Nazi motorcycle squad, and with a U.S. military attaché drove upstream through the Panzer army to Belgrade. His further progress eastward included a stop in Ankara, a hitch in Syria on the British push into that hellish terrain, and the job of covering the Cretan campaign from Cairo...
These were only symptoms. What they stood for could be guessed from the fact that Adolf Hitler increased his police force in the occupied countries by 50%. Ankara reported that Germany had asked her allies for 15 infantry divisions for police duty to replace Germans sent elsewhere...
Signs multiplied this week that the formation of Adolf Hitler's long-promised European Federation was close at hand: > In Ankara German Ambassador Franz von Papen told a correspondent that Germany would make a strong bid for peace with Great Britain as soon as the "decisive phase" of the Russian campaign was over...
Iran. Eventually, unless Hitler changes the Allies' plans, the heaviest traffic may get to Russia by way of Iraq, Iran and the Caspian Sea. It was reported from Ankara last week that more than 70 ships are plying between the U.S. and the Middle East with materials for joint British-Russian defense, that they have begun to unload at the rate of a ship...
Things were getting troublesome for the diplomatic corps in Ankara last week...