SOVIET CLAIMS
DEMANDS AGAINST TURKEY (ißec. 1 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 20. Generalissimo Stalin’s talk with Mr Bevin yesterday lasted 90 minutes. It was described to-day as frank and friendly. Sir Archibald Clark Kerr and Sir Alexander Cadogan were with Mr Bevin. The newspapers in Moscow are today giving prominence to the Soviet demands against Turkey, which Mr Bevin and 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.” 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 and the Black Sea end of the Baku pipe line. The demands are causing comment in diplomatic circles, the members of which recall 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 Star, Issue 25672, 21 December 1945, Page 5
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