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Aspects Of Joint Promise To Turkey

MUTUAL WAR ASSISTANCE PACT PUBLISHED

The text has now been published of the agreement between Britain and Soviet Russia signed by Sir Stafford Cripps and M.

Molotov on July 12 providing for mutual war assistance against Hitlerite Ger- many and against the conclusion of a separ- ate peace. Wireless.

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TWO ASPECTS of the Anglo-Soviet de- claration to Turkey one of general and the other of particular application

are dealt with by the London "Times" and "Tele- graph."

Recalling that the Montreux Convention, referred to in the declaration, "recognises the full sovereignty of Turkey over the Straits and the consequent right of her Government to take any measures requisite for their pro- tection against aggression in time of war or danger of war" "The Times" continues:

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"The value of this joint diplo-eign disdain for treaties, matic action by the belligerent and agreements of every kind, Governments of Britain and the including of course gentlemen's Soviet depended to no small de-agreements'. gree upon its reception by

the Anglo-Russia the declaration Turkish Government,

gives the Turkish Government an undertaking that "They have in fact welcomed they will not be left to face the it warmly and cominents of the Fuehrer's malevolence alone. Turkish press show that Turkish public opinion realises its Im- portance."

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of neutrality: "Should the Nazi Government fall to respect that pact and they have shown sover-

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"The consequences of this as- surance and reassurance--which i benefit Moscow almost as much as they benefit Ankara-are likely to be as fully appreciated in Russia as Turkey,

"They are welcomed in this country and Mr. Eden, Sir Stafford Cripps and M. Matsky will be warmly congratulated upon the signal service to the Allied cause." Black Sea Bid

Under the heading "Hitler's Black Sea bid" the "Telegraph" reviews the Nazi drive towards Odessa and Nikolaiev and sug- gests the Nazi General Staff may believe that should these ports fall-a possibility which must

be faced"they can command several ways to victory."

Both harbours, the "Telegraph" points out, might be used to out- flank the Russian front, "capture the Crimea and reach the oilfields of the Caucasus, or alternatively strike across Turkey at Iraq and Iran."

The Anglo-Soviet declaration, the "Telegraph" continues, has created difficulties for these grandiose Nazi projects.

"Attempts to make Turkey subserve to the Fuohrer's ma- galomania are now countered. She is not to be bullied” Into making her country a corridor for Nazi conquest,

"However many legions Hitler's marshals can deploy on the Black Sea shore there are no ships to. move them until some rum" [the] gauntlet to, and' through the Dardanelles, and there is no naval protection for them except what Mussolini has to lend.

Stories are told of great num bers of barges prepared at Con- stanza and of motor torpedo boats brought, down the Danube. Rus sia has a fleet in the Black Sea far more than capable of obliter- ating any naval - force which Hitler could scrape together there.

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