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...Hughe Montgomery Knachtbull-Hugessen, British Ambassador, who was shot up when a Japanese plane strafed his car near Shanghai (TIME, Sept. 6, 1937), reported that three men operating a large slingshot barely missed him with a fist-size rock...
...Turkish chrome the Nazis want for airplane engines (TIME, Oct. 13). Last week Germany's fat, blasty negotiator, Dr. Karl Clodius, made as threatening faces as his lardy jowls would permit. But Turkey's negotiator, Numan Menemencioglu, constantly in touch with British Ambassador Sir Hughe M. Knatchbull-Hugessen and U.S. Ambassador John van Antwerp MacMurray, quietly repeated that Germany could have no chrome until Turkey's pledge to sell its whole output to Britain expired in January...
...Deal. The British suspected that the whole thing might be a feint to mask a new blow at Britain. Sir Stafford Cripps saw no hope for Britain in Russia: this week he said he would not return to Moscow. In Ankara British Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen talked for an hour with Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoĝlu, trying to find out what was up. Turkey would be an important item in a Russo-German deal, and Turkey is a gateway to the Middle East and Suez...
...astute little President. Ismet Inonii. Asked how he had managed to withstand the foremost Nazi pressure ex pert, the President declared: "Allah be praised, I am deaf." Not deaf was Tur key's leader to less polished but meatier promises of British Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen. Last week his country firmly snubbed the Axis by signing a comprehensive economic agreement with Britain. By her sharp barter tactics Germany had corralled 54% of Turkey's ex port trade, regarded her as an essential source of supply. As a result of the new agreement the British Empire may replace...
...Turkish Defense Minister General Naci Tinaz was busy building military roads to the Russian frontier. Last week General Tinaz resigned "for reasons of health." Day earlier President Ismet Inönü and Foreign Minister Saracoglu had a 90-minute talk with the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen, who was about to go to London for a conference. What they told him: 1) "No danger of war exists in the Balkans"; 2) "Turkey does not intend to enter war against Russia"; 3) "Turkey perseveres in her decision to remain outside the war." With the cat on duty again...