GERMAN SHIPS
ALLOWED BY TURKEY TO PASS STRAITS IN ORDER TO SEIZE GREEK ISLANDS. ACCORDING TO MR LLOYD GEORGE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) RUGBY, May 7. Mr D. Lloyd George, opening the renewed debate in the House of Commons, on the war situation, admitted that there was complete agreement as to the obligation of honour to run every risk to support the valiant Greek Army, but said there had never been a war where diplomacy counted for so much, and that he expected from Mr Eden a full and frank statement of the Government’s foreign policy. Our worst defeats, he said, had been defeats in diplomacy, our greatest triumph had been a diplomatic triumph —the work of the late Lord Lothian.
He had hoped that Mr Eden would have had more to say about relations with Turkey, Spain and Vichy. Why withhold the perfectly well-known fact thdt Turkey allowed German ships to pass through the Bosphorous and Dardanelles to seize Greek islands,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1941, Page 6
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