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Strong indication that the game would end shortly was seen in the arrival at Ankara last week of the Vichy Cabinet's Undersecretary Jacques Gabriel Benoist-Méchin, reportedly to arrange an evacuation of 20,000 Vichy troops over the Turkish-Syrian border...
...Deal. The British suspected that the whole thing might be a feint to mask a new blow at Britain. Sir Stafford Cripps saw no hope for Britain in Russia: this week he said he would not return to Moscow. In Ankara British Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen talked for an hour with Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoĝlu, trying to find out what was up. Turkey would be an important item in a Russo-German deal, and Turkey is a gateway to the Middle East and Suez...
That totalitarian Russia would become an active partner of totalitarian Germany seemed more likely than ever last week. What shady dickerings went on between Reichsführer Hitler and newly designated Premier Stalin were secrets known only to the Kremlin and the Wilhelmstrasse, but rumors from Ankara of German troop concentrations in Rumania lent credence to a report by Correspondent John T. Whitaker that Hitler was forcing Stalin's hand. Possibly Joseph Stalin was waiting to see whether Britain could hold Suez before making a deal with Hitler in the Middle East, but it was disquieting news...
Already headed for Cyprus was the first Nazi detachment. From Ankara came report of arrival of a Nazi infantry unit, with armored cars and field guns, at the Syrian port of Latakia. Reported objective: Beirut, Lebanon capital, 100 miles southward...
...months later the British reconsidered and the conference was resumed. Ismet got nearly everything he wanted. He returned to Ankara in triumph, but with his hair turned grey and his face deeply lined. He was then only...