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Familiarity with the eager German wom en, the fresh-faced German young, bred forgetfulness of Belsen and Buchenwald and Oswieczim. The bodies were buried; the memory was all but buried. Even at the trial of Belsen's "beast," Josef Kr#228;mer and his staff, the evoked horror was stale...
...Turkey's Prime Minister Sükrü Saracoglu said "if we were for a free press he was too. . . . We didn't quite believe...
...also on the Turkish frontier. A fortnight ago Pravda had lambasted Turkey for not jumping into the war. Now Russians were harping on an old familiar chord-internationalization of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. The last time Turkish Premier Sükrü Saracoglu saw Moscow was in 1939, when Russia vainly tried to persuade him to close the Straits to other powers. Premier Saracoglu had not had a very pleasant visit in Moscow. Well might he wonder last week if he would not soon again be a guest in Spasso House...
Meanwhile Premier and Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu announced: "The next step will depend on the attitude of the Germans." Turkey's action stiffened backbones in Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary. For the first time all three Nazi satellite Governments talked back to Berlin, refused to break off diplomatic relations with the Turks...
...Ambassador to Berlin had come home, would not go back to Germany. But Hitler's envoy, wily Franz von Papen, instead of racing for Berlin, canceled a vacation, hotfooted to Ankara for a last-minute, bootless talk with Turkey's Premier and Foreign Minister, Sükrü Saracoglu. This move also gave Papen a chance to burn some papers, pack his bags...