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Stubborn Turks. As Russia goes, so goes Turkey. Turkey would scarcely dare to stand alone. The surprising firmness of Turkey last week may have been an indirect clue to Russia's mood. Just after German Ambassador Franz von Papen returned to Ankara with German "offers," the Turkish Government clamped martial law upon the land, ordered blackouts, revised train schedules, declared restrictions on automobile travel. The Istanbul newspaper Yeni Sabah challenged: "We do not recognize the German right to hand us an ultimatum. Germany can speak to us only as equals...
...evening last week German Ambassador Franz von Papen turned up at an official ball in Ankara, just as President Ismet Inönü arrived. While the band played the national anthem, Istiklal Ma-schi, and all the guests stood at attention, Ambassador von Papen tactlessly marched into the ballroom at the head of his delegation. Next morning he rushed off to Berlin, and Ankara buzzed with talk of German pressure on Turkey...
...days later Pressureman Papen, much happier than he was a year ago when Turkey jilted Germany for the Allies, was reported on a shooting party with Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Italy's Count Galeazzo Ciano. (This was denied in Berlin.) Whatever plans the Axis had for Turkey in the future, the threat of German action through Bulgaria, if Turkey should help Greece, was enough to keep Turkey precariously neutral last week. President Inönü made a firm speech saying that his country would "continue faithful to our friendships and alliances" (Turkey...
...ambassador, Dr. Westrick had one strike on him before he arrived. His former law partner in Berlin was none other than famed Dr. Heinrich Albert, who served here during World War I as sidekick of Provocateur Franz von Papen until his brief case, loaded with incriminating evidence, was stolen from him by another spy on New York's Sixth Avenue Elevated, and turned over to Government and press. After the war. Dr. Albert returned to Berlin, was briefly in the Reich Chancellery (1920) and later Minister of the Treasury, lived down his memorable Merkle. He built up a good...
Captain von Rintelen, who came to England in 1926 when he fell out with Arch-Intrigant Franz von Papen, was arrested even though he is over 60, the age limit for interning enemy aliens. Styling himself a "fugitive from Naziism." Rintelen is known in England as an elderly Beau Brummel and author of a best-seller on espionage. Americans remember him as a slick spy who caused $50,000,000 worth of damage to American industry and commerce in World War I. He expressed surprise at his arrest, but decided to "take it philosophically...