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...consolidated the Turkish rapprochement with Russia, Russian postwar aims remain Turkey's greatest fear. Control of the Dardanelles, Russia's only outlet to the southern waterways, has been a sore point between the two nations for decades; Turkey's control of it today hinges on the Montreux Convention...
...Prime Minister for twelve years, Ismet Inönü was often called a martinet, is regarded as a brilliant, stubborn bureaucrat. As chaste in his personal life as Atatürk was lecherous, he is violently nationalist. He represented Turkey at two crucial international conferences at Lausanne and Montreux, getting for Turkey virtually all she wanted. French and British statesmen railed at him but the louder their demands, the deafer Ismet Pasha became. A year ago he was forced out of the Prime Minister's office. Some said he was too pro-Russian for Ataturk. The true reason...
Around the shores of blue Lake Léman, dividing France and Switzerland, lie historic international conference cities, Geneva, Lausanne, Montreux, Nyon. Last week, the gay French resort of Evian-les-Bains was added to the list as delegates from 32 nations, including three world powers (U. S., France, Britain), four British Dominions (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Eire), most of the Latin American nations and several smaller European powers, there set up headquarters in the luxurious Hotel Royal. They came in answer to President Roosevelt's invitation, issued soon after Germany annexed Austria, to see what could be done...
...Montreux, Switzerland beat Ireland...
Last week Egypt was still not a member of the League of Nations but, mindful of Britain's promise about "capitulations," gathered together representatives of the twelve capitulatory powers, including the U. S., in the hotel at Montreux, Switzerland where last July the Powers agreed to restore the Dardanelles to Turkey (TIME, July 27). Master of ceremonies was Egypt's ambitious Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha...