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NOTE TO TURKEY

Berlin Observer’s Opinion PLACATING EFFECT

View Of Wide Nazi Threat Discounted

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, March 5. The Berlin correspondent of the “New York Times” expresses the belief that Hitler’s note to Turkey produced a placating effect on both Turkey and Russia. He reports that Berlin official quarters point out that the Soviet Union was fully informed of the German intention to occupy Bulgaria. Any critical observations from Soviet quarters, therefore, must be accepted as fitting into the elastic framework of those diplomatic and political privileges which are the prerogatives of the detached onlooker. In informed diplomatic quarters in Washington, Germany’s penetration of Bulgaria, and her probable forthcoming penetration of Yugoslavia are not envisaged as pointing to a German offensive on a wide scale against valuable British possessions in the Near East, but rather as an effort to salvage Italy’s position in Albania. The German penetration is also seen as an effort to prevent the creation by Britain of a land front in Europe from which to attack Germany. Turkey, it is thought, may invite Britain to send a fleet to the Black Sea to bombard German-occupied Rumanian and Bulgarian ports. Germany would find it an impossible task to cross Asiatic Turkey to Irak in the face of Turkish opposition, supported by British naval and air power.

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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 138, 7 March 1941, Page 7

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NOTE TO TURKEY Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 138, 7 March 1941, Page 7

NOTE TO TURKEY Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 138, 7 March 1941, Page 7