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...last week London's Anglo-American society, The Pilgrims, sat eating Lord Woolton pie, a pottage of vegetables named for the Food Minister. They stopped clattering their forks as the red-coated toastmaster called for order and gave the floor to Winston Churchill...
...particular political importance voiced one of Canada's toughest problems. The man: Captain George S. White of the Canadian Army, a member of the usually dozing Conservative opposition. The problem: enlisting in Canada's war the fullhearted cooperation of the agricultural. Catholic, cautious, reactionary, French, Anglo-fearing, politically potent Quebec habitants...
ISTANBUL--Reports circulating in diplomatic quarters today that plans for a possible "surprise offensive" against Germany's army in Bulgaria by Great Britain, Turkey, and Greece were discussed at yesterday's Anglo-Turkish conference at Cyprus...
They believe that peace will bring them ecomonic recovery, no matter who wins the war. If Britain wins, they can return to their place in the Anglo-U. S. world order. If Germany wins, they can bargain for concessions from both the U. S. and Totalitaria. And so, as long as the issue of the war is in doubt, they hesitate to put all their eggs in the Anglo-U. S. basket...
...apparently quite successful. Earlier in the week German Ambassador to Turkey Franz von Papen had practiced the standard Hitlerian strategy of showing Turkish officials a cinema of Germany's western conquests. Anthony Eden countered by exhibiting films of Britain's Libyan victories. Final upshot was that the Anglo-Turkish alliance was strongly reaffirmed. Turkey rushed additional troops to the Bulgarian border, and closed the Dardanelles to all but ships with special permits and Turkish naval pilots. Turkey "nullified" her two-week old non-aggression pact with Bulgaria, and many observers thought the Soviet Government rebuked the whole Axis...