Word: balkans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
General Weygand was fresh from checking over Turkey's armed forces, which number another 200,000 regulars, 700,000 reserves. If there was any doubt about what Turkey's Foreign Minister Saracoglu meant when, on his way to last fortnight's Balkan Entente meeting, he said: "Turkey is not neutral but only nonbelligerent for the moment," it was dispelled last week by a sudden Turkish gesture. Under the emergency powers voted to the Government by Parliament last month, Turkey seized the Krupp shipyards on the Golden Horn and dismissed 20 German technicians employed there outfitting...
...aviator, newspaper publisher, part Scottish descent, came by special train. Handsome, friendly, helpful, M. Gafencu acted as the Council's President, was busy spiking rumors that: 1) Rumania had decided to cast her lot with Germany; 2) an anti-Russian compact was about to be signed; 3) the Balkan Entente was breaking up; 4 ) anything important would occur at the conference. No secret was made, however, that Rumania's growing troubles with the Allies v. Germany over oil (see p. 31) was the most discussed topic...
There were rumors that a regional entente of the Danubian States would be formed. It was agreed that Italy's interest in keeping Balkan peace was praiseworthy. It would be nice, hinted the conferees, if Hungary and Bulgaria would drop their claims against Rumania, Greece, Yugoslavia until a general peace could be negotiated. But all knew that the Balkans, in order to keep the peace that in this generation they have come to hold so dear, would have to go on performing acrobatic tricks of neutrality. No concrete results were expected, none resulted. But it was all very cordial...
...Western Front." He masterminded a possible Italian tie-up with the Allies, with a thrust at the Russian oil fields at Baku by Weygand's French, British and possibly Turkish Army, from Syria. Quick action was being urged, said he. because "the present situation in the unpredictable Balkans, and particularly in Rumania, will permit no delay." By Wednesday night, he could see this campaign advancing right to Rumania, "a natural battlefield for open warfare between the mechanized units of modern armies." By Friday, black Balkan headlines had given plenty of point to Editor Williams' Balkan pointers...