AGAINST TURKEY
SOVIET MAKING DEMANDS
Rec. 12.30 p.m.
LONDON, Dec. 2(X
Stalin's talk with Mr. Bevin yesterday lasted 90 minutes, and is described today as frank and friendly. The newspapers in Moscow are today giving prominence to the Soviet demands against Turkey which Mr. Bevin, Mr. Byrnes, and their delegations studied this morning.
The Moscow papers print a letter by two leading Georgian scholars demanding "the return of territory seized by Turkey;" . • • V The letter said the Georgian people had never relinquished this territory, which must be recovered. The area lies immediately south of the oil port of Batum at the Black Sea end of the Baku pipeline.
The demands are causing comment in diplomatic circles, the members of which recall the earlier statements from Soviet Armenia concerning Kars and other Armenian areas, now forming part of Turkey. , The Kars area formed part of Russia until after the first World War,' when it was transferred to Turkey.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 149, 21 December 1945, Page 7
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