TURKEY: Parting Gift

Germany's foxy Ambassador to Turkey Franz von Papen last week found a sly way of increasing Turkey's worry over its position between Adolf Hitler and the Suez and Near Eastern oil. About to leave Ankara for a visit to Berlin, he delivered to Turkey's President Ismet Inönü a parting gift. It consisted of a learned volume on "grave excavations in Turkey."

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