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While Ambassador Franz von Papen was busy with this bulldozing in Turkey, the German Army last week completed its preparations on the threshold of the Near East and got a winged foot inside the door...
...arrangement about Turkey with Russia's new Premier. Access to the Mediterranean Sea is still a preoccupation with all Russian statesmen, and an offer of joint control of the Dardanelles might cause Premier Stalin to forget his promise to Turkey. In the meantime, in Ankara, Franz von Papen already had a jimmy in the doorjamb...
Before he left for his holiday in Germany, Ambassador von Papen laid plans for the "commercial encirclement" of Turkey, persuading such satrap States as Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria to make economic agreements with Turkey. Cut off from her best markets for tobacco and grains, Turkey had to accept the best arrangements she could get, and for the past month negotiations have been proceeding for a barter agreement with Germany. Such Nazi agreements have a way of corrupting by persuasion and bribery a nation's business element: they preceded German occupation of most of the Balkan countries. But in Ankara...
...tough, able statesman who once outmaneuvered Lord Curzon at Lausanne in 1923 and who (they hope) may yet out-maneuver Adolf Hitler. Joseph Stalin is reported to have said: "The only man outside Russia whose advice I respect is Inönü." With the arrival of Franz von Papen this week Inönü comes up against the toughest assignment of his career...
Waiting to learn what demands Papen would bring, President Inönü knew they would be unpleasant, feared they would include even the demand for passage of troops through Turkey. To such a demand Turkish officials were satisfied he would answer with a flat No. Said one: "We fought too hard and long to gain our liberty to give it up lightly by the so-called innocent passage of troops. . . . You must realize that the same men who actually fought Turkey's independence wars are now running the country. They know what the country suffered then...