Word: castellorizo
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Last month a small British naval force appeared off the barren, waterless, craggy, four-square-mile Italian rock of Castellorizo, near the Dodecanese Islands-two miles off the Turkish coast and 60 miles from Rhodes (where the Germans were this week reported to have sent Stuka dive-bombers). After brief opposition, the British forced a landing and took the islet...
Shortly after the Castellorizo raid, another force was said to have turned the same stunt on little Caso Island, in the Dodecanese near Crete...
...further modifications in regard to the conditions under which foreigners will be permitted to reside and do business in Turkey. This is sure to cause France a good deal of concern on account of her large trade interest in the Near East. A request for the island of Castellorizo may also be unwelcome to Italy. Britain, however, seems to be content to settle the Mosul question by direct negotiations, as suggested by Turkey. The Turkish proposal to lift the economic clauses out of the Treaty and reserve them for future discussion, may, however, prove to be a serious difficulty...
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