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...Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt took his place last week in the long line of Turkey's suitors. He looked the situation over. He needed Lebensraum -because the small, comparatively shabby U.S. Embassy could seat only twelve guests for dinner. And he needed household goods; the Embassy did not have a set of glassware that matched. Even if he and British Ambassador Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen had stagged the leading nightclubs until 3 in the morning with Turkey's Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu, there was more formal entertaining to be done. The newly arrived corps...
...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 be a factor in the future of Europe...
...high time the President found his man. Laurence A. Steinhardt returned from Moscow to the U.S. in November, was appointed to the vitally important post of Ankara, Turkey. In Washington is the U.S.S.R.'s highest-powered diplomat, Maxim Litvinoff, onetime Foreign Commissar, onetime Delegate to the League of Nations. Joseph Stalin was waiting for something equally handsome...
President Roosevelt appointed an ace trouble shooter as Ambassador to Turkey: Laurence A. Steinhardt, now resting in the U.S. from his two-year labor as Ambassador to Russia...
...Steinhardt, who succeeds John Van A. MacMurray at Ankara, will work with Envoy-at-Large William Christian Bullitt, now in the Near East, and with his own successor in Moscow, probably Major General James H. Burns, a great admirer of the Russian Army...