Word: bosporus
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Globetrotting Adlai Stevenson whipped into Cyprus, pausing just long enough to announce that when he gets home he will visit the White House, at President Eisenhower's invitation. Then he was off to Turkey where he took a swim in the Bosporus and chatted with India Edwards, vice chairman of the U.S. Democratic National Committee, before pushing off for Belgrade, Yugoslavia...
...Turkish War of 1877, returned to Turkey after World War I, but have been the subject of ceaseless Soviet agitation ever since. The Montreux Convention is an international agreement (signed by Turkey, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria. Greece, Japan, Rumania and Yugoslavia) which regulates the Dardanelles and the Bosporus, the straits linking the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. Under this agreement. Turkey may fortify the straits and regulate the passage of warships, but must allow all merchant ships to pass. In World War II, the Soviet Union charged that neutral Turkey had permitted German war vessels to pass through...
Molotov himself, reported Churchill, had sent a message to the Turks offering to withdraw 1) Russian claims on Turkish territory, 2) demands for a share in the military control of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. Both proposals, in effect, add up only to a renunciation by the Russians of something which they have no prospect of gaining anyway (short of a war); nonetheless, Churchill regarded Molotov's message to an ancient enemy as perhaps the most important single gesture since Stalin's death...
...Marseilles harbor, Somerset Maugham, 79, boarded the liner Iskendum bound for Istanbul. Said he: "I'm going to Turkey to see again the Bosporus, which I have not seen for such a long time. It's a pleasure trip. It will be my last...
Last week, on a sunny afternoon, the Bosporus was conquered again. This time the swimmer was a sedate family man, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey George C. McGhee, who took along his wife, his private secretary, his children (Marcia, 12, and George, 10), and a visiting U.S. Senator, Russell B. Long of Louisiana. It was Senator Long's idea on the spur of the moment to fulfill a lifetime's ambition by swimming from Europe to Asia, and the McGhees picked it up with enthusiasm. Another Senator, Wayne Morse of Oregon, cheered the swimmers on from a motorboat...