Word: marmara
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...staged a May Day demonstration of its own. While Russia paraded its armed forces across the Red Square, the U.S.S. Leyte nosed into the Dardanelles, crossed the Sea of Marmara, anchored in the Bosphorus. Behind her trailed the cruiser Dayton, the destroyers Purdy and Bristol. The flagship Dayton fired a salute. Turkish shore batteries replied. The Turkish Government considered the U.S. visit purely routine. Said the U.S. Navy: it was simply paying a social call during a break in training exercises...
...Keen-eyed Reader Burns is one up on TIME Mapmaker Chapin, who drew the Sea of Marmara, saw no rat in his red ring...
...aggression pact with the Soviet Union in 1939; 3) a friendship and nonaggression pact signed with Germany in 1941. All were hedges against Turkey's old fear of Russia, which has always wanted Turkey's greatest asset: the Straits (Dardanelles, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus), linking the Black Sea and the Mediterranean...
Turkey, moved to evacuate civilians from European Turkey including Istanbul, offered free transportation to those who would go eastward across the Sea of Marmara or the Bosporus into vast, hilly Anatolia. But at week's end only a few thousands had applied. The only inference from such an attempt at evacuation was that Turkey feared invasion and if invaded intended to fight...
...good deal of the gunplay would take place in Turkey's front yard, the Dardanelles. With Italy's fleet on the prowl, Turkey sent her 23,000-ton, model 1911 battle cruiser Yavuz (the onetime famed German raider Goeben) and other naval units into the Sea of Marmara lying between the Dardanelles and the Bosporus. Russia began maneuvers in the Black Sea after having laid mines off her main port Odessa and the oil port Batum...