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...reward for this heroic nation then, to deprive her not only of the promised Dodecanese (taken by Italy from the old Turkish Empire in 1912; given to Greece in 1919, and retaken by Italy in 1922 for no reason and vaguely promised ever since), but also Greek-inhabited Western Thrace which has been incorporated with Greece since 1919! And these territories are to be taken from a nation that is indisputably on our side and given to the canny Turks, still waiting to make sure who is going...
Turkey would naturally like to have the Dodecanese Islands and Western Thrace-but probably not at the expense of a strong, friendly Greece. For the past decade Turkey has considered Greece the cornerstone of her Balkan relations, in 1936 went out of her way to bury the hatchet with her onetime enemy by an exchange of populations that meant considerable sacrifices for Turkey. About a month ago, an editorial in the No. 1 Turkish newspaper Aksam declared that Turkey had no right to interfere with the peace terms, but would support the eviction of Italy from the Balkans...
...strong voice at the peace table is, therefore, considered vital by Turkey's leaders. Territorial gains in Western Thrace would further safeguard Turkey's Dardanelles. Air-tight alliances with Britain and the U.S., founded on common participation in the war, would go far toward safeguarding her future. And Turkey herself has some postwar plans which she would like to see realized...
...happened was that the Turko-Bulgarian frontier was closed and the Turkish press suddenly began to denounce Bulgaria. The Turks suspect that Boris was trying to squirm out of his alliance with Hitler and butter up the Allies; the Bulgars fear that the Turks are preparing to grab off Thrace...
...correspondent of the Hungarian Pester Lloyd on a trip through Thrace reported last week that the frontier area was speckled with innumerable, brand-new bunkers. Minsker Zeitung, a German paper in Occupied Russia, featured stories about mighty new fortifications on the Aegean islands, including Crete. In Yugoslavia, the SS division Prinz Eugen was last week winding up a month's campaign in which it claimed to have recovered half of the Partisan-freed territory, including the capital, Bihac. The south of France was being additionally fortified...