TURKEY: Iscariot to Ankara

Turkey, unlike Bulgaria and Hungary, had its fill of German alliances in the World War and wants no more of them. Although trading heavily with Nazi Germany, the Turks now look favorably on the British-French antiaggression "Peace Front." Last week, in the face of this development, Adolf Hitler decided it was high time to send to Turkey a man skilled in dealing with just such a situation. He picked for the job of Reich Ambassador to Ankara Franz von Papen, a diplomatic smoothie, an international intriguer whom British Foreign Office wits call...

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