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...Ankara, a 4,768-ton freighter whose home port is Bremen, one of 28 German ships that holed up in Trieste when war began, last month ran down to Dubrovnik (better known to tourists as Ragusa), loaded, then lay for days while Belgrade hemmed & hawed. The Germans asked for a naval escort through Yugoslavia's neutral waters, hoping to establish a system whereby Nazi freighters could ply all around the neutral Balkan peninsula from Russia's Black Sea oil ports. But Yugoslavs had no wish to offend the Allies...
With an anecdote Reporter Tomara answered Question No. 2. Proceeding by bus from Ankara to Beirut, she was delayed by a breakdown in the middle of the salt desert of Konya. From the hovels of a dirt-poor Turkish village, the populace swarmed around. Out stepped "an elderly man whose head was wrapped in a dirty rag-possibly a turban, the wearing of which long ago had been banned by the late Kamal Ataturk. The old man, who had been taken prisoner by the Russians in the last war, addressed me in primitive Russian, filling out gaps in his sentence...
...feeling of the lowly peasants was not much different from that of residents of Ankara, although Konya and Ankara appeared to be separated...
Chief result of the Balkan Entente's meeting last month was to establish Turkey as the strong man of a none-too-solid Balkan bloc (TIME, Feb. 12). Last week Turkey's Foreign Minister, shrewd Shokru Saracoglu, was back in Ankara after a trip to Sofia of which he said: "The Bulgarian Government now fully shares the Entente view that at this moment the general interests transcend any particular interests." In an interview with Correspondent Anne O'Hare McCormick of the New York Times, Foreign Minister Saracoglu took pains to point out that, whereas Turkey...
...thaw out Bulgaria's lingering coldness to the other Balkan powers, most of whom have stolen territory from her. M. Saracoglu, veteran of a recent three-week diplomatic scuffle at Moscow and framer of the Turkish-Allied military alliance, was accused of unnecessary bluntness before he left Ankara. He publicly said what everybody knew privately anyway-that "our country is not neutral, but is merely out of the war." Rumor had it that the Foreign Minister was cooking up a deal between Bulgaria and Rumania whereby King Carol would appease King Boris by handing back a small strip...