Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week by the arrival of the U.S. aircraft carrier Leyte off Istanbul. He led the fight for the bill's passage in the Senate. There he successfully warded off the waspish Left and the economy-minded Right. Thus, if the Truman Doctrine applies only to Greek-Turkish aid, Vandenberg supports it. But he does not think that the bipartisan policy extends to the Truman Doctrine. He does not consider it a doctrine at all, but merely a "selective pattern to fit a given circumstance...
High on the thank-you list were the stern critics of U.S. foreign policy: Florida's Senator Claude Pepper, who wanted to scuttle the Greek-Turkish loan; barnstorming Henry Wallace, who wanted to substitute a loan for Russia; and Biographer Elliott (As He Saw It) Roosevelt...
...demonstration of its own. While Russia paraded its armed forces across the Red Square, the U.S.S. Leyte nosed into the Dardanelles, crossed the Sea of Marmara, anchored in the Bosphorus. Behind her trailed the cruiser Dayton, the destroyers Purdy and Bristol. The flagship Dayton fired a salute. Turkish shore batteries replied. The Turkish Government considered the U.S. visit purely routine. Said the U.S. Navy: it was simply paying a social call during a break in training exercises...
...Republican presidential aspirant told a news conference, however, that he is supporting the Senate approved version of the President's $400,000,000 Greek-Turkish aid program largely "because it is a matter of hiparliean foreign policy...
...including four Jewish prisoners, an Arab prisoner and three Jewish raiders, were killed in the wholesale prison delivery which the underground fighter accomplished by planting four bombs in Turkish baths adjoining the prison wall after screening the attack with gunfire and grenade blasts...