Word: bosphorus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staged a May Day demonstration of its own. While Russia paraded its armed forces across the Red Square, the U.S.S. Leyte nosed into the Dardanelles, crossed the Sea of Marmara, anchored in the Bosphorus. Behind her trailed the cruiser Dayton, the destroyers Purdy and Bristol. The flagship Dayton fired a salute. Turkish shore batteries replied. The Turkish Government considered the U.S. visit purely routine. Said the U.S. Navy: it was simply paying a social call during a break in training exercises...
This bit of news aroused men in a dozen nations, from the Italian sailors who pondered serving under Stalin, to the Turks who wondered if the U.S. were going to press for Russian access to the Black Sea through the Bosphorus. Frenchmen, Yugoslavs and Greeks suddenly realized that they, too, had a claim to some of Italy's ships. But for once Franklin Roosevelt had scooped Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin on a big piece of news...