Evening star., 1939-09-30
War on Soviet to
End Pact, Allies
Reported Told
By the Associated Press.

6y tne Associated Press.
ANKARA, Turkey, Sept. 30
Turkey was reported reliably today
to have notified Great Britain and
. France her mutual assistance obli-
cations to them would be annuled if
the allies became involved in war
with Soviet Russia.
Turkeys foreign minister, Sukro
Saracoglu, has been in Moscow since
early this week discussing Turkeys
role in the Near East, greatly al
tered by Russia's emergence as Ger
many's partner in redrawing the
map of Eastern Europe.
Informed sources here said that
Saracoglu had discussed with Soviet
leaders Black Sea pact which. un-
der Russian leadership, would he
signed by all Black Sea nations
Rumania and Bulgaria as we'll as
Turkey.
Proviso Put in Treaties.
Informed persons asserted that a
proviso releasing Turkey from her
obligations in the event of war be-
tween the western allies and Russia
had been put into definite mutual
assistance and economic agreements
between Turkey and Britain and
Turkey and France now ready for
signature.
Saracoglu, it was said, had agreed
with Russian leaders that Turkey
would close the Dardanelles to war-
ships of all belligerent nations, thus
neutralizing the Black Sea-
Necessary preliminaries to a Black
Sea pact would be some kind of
settlement of Bulgaria's claims
against Rumania for Dobruja.
which Rumania gained from the
Bulgars in the Balkan war and
World War settlements.
Saracoglu to Go to Bucharest.
It was believed that after his
return from Moscow Saracoglu
would go to Bucharest to confer on
this with Grigore Gafencu, Ruman-
ian foreign minister.
(Unoficial reports in Moscow
said Saracoglu's negotiations
there turned on Russian de-
mands for partia, control of the
Dardanelles, gateway to the
Black Sea, now dominated by
Turkey. Czarist Russia for
generation looked longingly at
the Dardanelles) ...-........ ...
Turkish quarters have taken the
attitude that any new pact ccn-
cluded by Saracoglu in Moscow
need not essentially impair Turkeys S
earlier pledges of mutual aid ex-
changed with Britain and France.
Those pledges, pending conclu-
sion of definite long term agree
ments, were exchanged by Turkey
with Britain on May II and with
France on June %. They pro-
vided for mutual aid Gin case of
an act of aggression which might
lead to war in the Mediterranean
area
Dardanelles Closing Threat.
Closing of the Dardanelles to war
ships of all belligerent nations
would greatly lessen the possibility
of Britain and France striking at
Germany through back door,
A plan frequently discussed in al
lied capitals would involve the send
ing of force through the Darda-
nelles and the Bosporous to the
Black Sea and then presumably
through Rumania. Rumania, how
ever, has given no indication she
would acquiesce to being made a
theater of war
The allies Salonika expedition in
1918 was major factor in the COL
lapse of the central powers.
Bulgar-Rumanian Talk Reported.
There have been reports here that
Bulgaria and Rumania already had
started discussions for settlement of
the Dobruja claims but confirmation
was impossible either here, in Bu-
charest or in Sofia.
The date for signing the new
Russian-Turkish pact was not known
here, but it was believed it might be
done before Saracoglu leaves Mos
COW.
Sofia reports said Premier George
Kiossievanoff of Bulgaria had post
poned his planned trip to Moscow,
and it was believed here a satisfac-
tory solution of Bulgarian territorial
claims might be reached between
Soviet leaders and Saracoglu for
presentation to Rumania without
the nocoSSitv of the P1,lroriop r,re