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Ankara — Athens
”Half of Turkey’s expenditures go for defence
purposes,” the Turkish Foreign Minister,
Nedjmeddin Sadak, said at a press conference in February,
1948. ”This proves that Turkey is the nation which
today is most exposed to pressure.”
”The nations of the world live in fear of new
wars,” His Excellency the Turkish Minister said
some months later. ”Not even the most optimistic
can maintain that a more stable period is in sight.”
”The Turks are reactionaries,” the Russian press
and radio declared at the same time. ”They have
sold their country to imperialists for one hundred
million dollars.”
I had been invited to go to Turkey to study the
situation there by the Red Crescent, the Turkish
equivalent of our Red Cross. During the week I
was there I was received with marvellous
hospitality and could make a number of extremely
interesting observations. When, in the end of April, 1948,
I sat in the plane bound for Istambul and Ankara, I
remembered what the press had said concerning
statements of the type quoted above. Nor had I
been many days in Ankara before I understood
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