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Between bomb blasts, through the blackout, Berliners stumbled to their cinemas last week to get a Nazi-eye view of what the unspeakable British have been up to all these years. With noisy and immense satisfaction they saw beefy, aging Emil Jannings play Stephanus Johannes Paulus Krüger, South Africa's famed Boer statesman, in Tobis Film's production Ohm Krüger. This Nazi rewrite of the Boer War for home consumption is pure propaganda-reminiscent of The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin, and other thrillers tossed off during World War I to raise...
...these questions were firmly shut away in the brief cases and the minds of these three men. In Ankara it was rumored that Anthony Eden would soon fly to Turkey, to brace the wavering demi-ally. At week's end Turkey's Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu made a speech indicating that, even in Cairo, Anthony Eden was a bracer...
...Turkey had no intention of opposing a Nazi seizure of Bulgaria. On the other hand, others said, the pact meant that if Bulgaria was walked over by Germany, Turkey would not grab at Bulgarian territory-and Turkey's alliance with Britain was intact. Turkish Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu reaffirmed the alliance but left Turkey's specific intentions diplomatically vague...
...alleged Allied plot to bomb the Baku oilfields, more worried by the fact that the Russian press seemed inclined to believe Germany's story. Turkey expected a quick showdown on The Straits, with Germany conniving or otherwise occupied. Putting up a brave front, Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu, who may soon lose his job on Molotov's demand, entertained patrons of the Karpitch Restaurant in Ankara by kicking up his heels in his famous acrobatic zeybek folk dance, with which he used to delight the late Kamal Atat...
Keep up the good work, TIME, but believe me, it is a hell of a thing to have to pay Kr. 1, 25 per issue for TIME (Kr. 1, 35 for the Saturday Evening Post) when I got it for 15? at home in California...