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...words were measured as he held his head up and said to his British colleagues: "He may at any time attempt the invasion of this island. That is an ordeal from which we shall not shrink." He paused again. Then, for ears not in London but in Ankara, which last week suddenly became capital of the realm of anxiety, he said: "At the present moment he is driving fast through the Balkans and at any moment he may turn upon Turkey." Looking up into the distinguished visitors' gallery at the face of Soviet Ambassador Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky, he said...
...Coincidentally or otherwise, 800 miles away in Ankara was Germany's oldest fifth columnist of them all, stumble-plotting Ambassador to Turkey Franz von Papen...
...Army camps the first 128,000 drafted men were in training; the U. S. armament program was in second gear-and only the White House knew how well or how badly it was going. Beyond U. S. borders, beyond the Western Hemisphere, events hung in the balance from Ankara to the borders of Indo-China-but only the White House knew how greatly U. S. action could affect their outcome. The President had long, since stated to the U. S. the meaning of those events-that they placed American civilization in greater peril than it had been since the days...
...Eden-Dill-Cripps visit to Ankara was apparently quite successful. Earlier in the week German Ambassador to Turkey Franz von Papen had practiced the standard Hitlerian strategy of showing Turkish officials a cinema of Germany's western conquests. Anthony Eden countered by exhibiting films of Britain's Libyan victories. Final upshot was that the Anglo-Turkish alliance was strongly reaffirmed. Turkey rushed additional troops to the Bulgarian border, and closed the Dardanelles to all but ships with special permits and Turkish naval pilots. Turkey "nullified" her two-week old non-aggression pact with Bulgaria, and many observers thought...
Would the Army of the Nile transform itself into the Army of Salonika? Was an invasion of Sicily the plan? Would General Wavell push on to Tripoli? Answers to these questions were firmly shut away in the brief cases and the minds of these three men. In Ankara it was rumored that Anthony Eden would soon fly to Turkey, to brace the wavering demi-ally. At week's end Turkey's Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu made a speech indicating that, even in Cairo, Anthony Eden was a bracer...