Word: russo-turkish
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...Thirty years later, Lafayette, who did not witness the episode himself, started the story that Washington called Lee a "damned poltroon" on this occasion. Most historians don't believe it. *But later drew on the tactical talents of another warrior of the Revolution, John Paul Jones. In the Russo-Turkish war of 1787-91, Jones was a rear admiral with Catherine's Black Sea fleet, fought in several engagements...
Russian interference in Macedonia dates from Tsarist times. After the Russo-Turkish war (1877-78), the Treaty of San Stefano, imposed by the victorious Russians, gave Macedonia to Bulgaria, practically converted the Balkans into a Russian-dominated great Bulgaria, with an Aegean coast line. Later, at the Congress of Berlin, Britain and Austria forced the Tsar to disgorge most of his Balkan booty. As a sop, they let him keep strategic Kars in Asia Minor (see below...
...Ambassador Lawrence Steinhardt is probably closest to the Turkish Prime Minister, gets along best with him across the conference table. The two men became friends in 1939 when the then Foreign Minister Saracoglu cooled his heels for three weeks in the Kremlin's anterooms, trying to negotiate a Russo-Turkish treaty. Steinhardt, then Ambassador to Moscow, had the Turk frequently to bridge parties, at which the Prime Minister plays a canny, steady game. Said Saracoglu last week of the U.S. representative: "There's nothing feeble about your Ambassador's head...
With Sergei Vinogradov, the Soviet Ambassador, Saracoglu's relations are on a good, solid political footing, personalized by occasional games of chess. The score between the two, after two years of playing, is about even - as are official Russo-Turkish relations at their present stage...
Bloodletting is nothing new to Odessa. During the Crimean War it was unsuccessfully attacked by the Franco-British Allies in 1854; later it was muffed by the Turks in the Russo-Turkish troubles of 1876-77. In an unforgettable silent film, Director Sergei Eisenstein recorded the Cossack slaughter and pogroms which followed the mutinied battleship's landing (1905) at Odessa's port. After the Bolshevik Revolution the city was in turn occupied by Austrian, German and French forces, and the monstrous General Simon Petlure (whose murderer a French jury in 1926 acquitted and fined one franc) also...