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Chief result of the Balkan Entente's meeting last month was to establish Turkey as the strong man of a none-too-solid Balkan bloc (TIME, Feb. 12). Last week Turkey's Foreign Minister, shrewd Shokru Saracoglu, was back in Ankara after a trip to Sofia of which he said: "The Bulgarian Government now fully shares the Entente view that at this moment the general interests transcend any particular interests." In an interview with Correspondent Anne O'Hare McCormick of the New York Times, Foreign Minister Saracoglu took pains to point out that, whereas Turkey...
...think," said M. Saracoglu, "we are reasonably sure of peace, for this year, at least. . . . My confidence is founded on the ordinary processes of reason, but in these times logic and the human mind are too often overridden by the illogic of events. Therefore we do not let reasonable hope prevent us from preparing day and night for the unexpected...
General Weygand was fresh from checking over Turkey's armed forces, which number another 200,000 regulars, 700,000 reserves. If there was any doubt about what Turkey's Foreign Minister Saracoglu meant when, on his way to last fortnight's Balkan Entente meeting, he said: "Turkey is not neutral but only nonbelligerent for the moment," it was dispelled last week by a sudden Turkish gesture. Under the emergency powers voted to the Government by Parliament last month, Turkey seized the Krupp shipyards on the Golden Horn and dismissed 20 German technicians employed there outfitting...
...Shokru Saracoglu, Turkish Foreign Minister, arrived after a day's stop off at Sofia, where he tried to thaw out Bulgaria's lingering coldness to the other Balkan powers, most of whom have stolen territory from her. M. Saracoglu, veteran of a recent three-week diplomatic scuffle at Moscow and framer of the Turkish-Allied military alliance, was accused of unnecessary bluntness before he left Ankara. He publicly said what everybody knew privately anyway-that "our country is not neutral, but is merely out of the war." Rumor had it that the Foreign Minister was cooking...
John Metaxas, Premier, War Minister, Air Minister and Foreign Minister-i.e.Dictator-of Greece, arrived on the same train with M. Saracoglu. This short, stout, Potsdam-educated general, veteran of Turkish and Balkan wars, onetime admirer of Hitler, was unusually silent for him. During World War I he was a member of the Greek Court's pro-German Camarilla. Result was that he became a prisoner in French Corsica. Last week he seemed as pro-Allied as neutrals come these days...