military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (10/19/89)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Thursday, 19 October, 1939 The failure of Russian-Turkish relations is capped by today's signing in Angora of a 15-year French-British-Turkish treaty. Turkey agrees to support Britain and France in the event of hostilities in the Mediterranean or should their guarantees to Greece and Rumania result in war in the Balkans, so long as that does not force a Turkish war with Russia. In return, Turkey receives Franco-British guarantees should she be attacked. The Four-Powers Conference in Stockholm ends with a recommendation that Finland compromise with the Soviet Union and agree to the proposed territorial exchange. President Roosevelt, under the provisions of the Neutrality Act, forbids the entry of belligerent submarines within the 3-mile territorial limit of the United States. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Some small states are bound to watch powerlessly the conflict of the great powers, but we are very much comforted by the numerous telegrams received from the Presidents of all the American countries and King Leopold of the Belgians." - P.R. Munch, Danish Foreign Minister, at the conclusion of the Four-Powers Conference.