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Over the puppet Paris radio the ingratiating voice of a "Dr. Friedrich"* gave a warped résumé of Vatican-German relations since the Concordat of 1933 was negotiated by Cardinal Pacelli (now Pius XII) and Franz von Papen...
What Franz von Papen, Nazi Ambassador, who has been wooing Turkey for nearly four years, had to say was not recorded. But the soft "underbelly of the Axis," which Churchill last Nov. 11 had pointed out as one of the Allies' next striking points, seemed to have been softened some more...
...lost the initiative, but beyond that hazy problems loomed: If widespread revolutions broke out in the Balkans it might be wise for Turkey to establish order in the name of the Allies, risk war against Germany. Allied and Axis diplomats in Ankara last week noted that Ambassador Franz von Papen had gone to Berlin to confer with Adolf Hitler...
...Luftwaffe's Colonel General Alexander Löhr, Reich Minister of Economics Walther Funk and German Ambassador in Ankara Franz von Papen had flown to the Balkans to see what they could do. Reports came back that the Balkan nations had far too many troops concentrated on each other's frontiers. And they found other things not to their liking...
This was the basic problem, highlighted by the massing of new German troops in the Balkans. Under such a threat the trial of two Russians for the attempted assassination of Ambassador Franz von Papen had proceeded with scrupulous honesty and little conclusive evidence. The Turks resented Russian press attacks and bullying demands that the defendants be released. But, like Ambassador Steinhardt's search for new wineglasses, the trial was incidental to bigger things. For in the spring of 1942 Turkey looked farther ahead. When & if the belligerents exhausted themselves Turkey's now neutral army might well...