New Way of Hiring Aymy of Mercenaries, Paper Says Milan, May 15.
The Anglo-Turkish defensive agreement has as its only purpose the extension of the British control over the Dardanelles as well as Gibraltar and Suez, writes "La Stampa" yester~ day in criticizing this action.
The "Gazzetta di Popolo" asks whether Turkey was not given additional inducement in the form of a loan and intimates that the agreements with Poland and Rumania also have a distinctly commercial flavour.
Formerly it was a custom to purchase mercenaries to fight in foreign armies but today, according to the paper, states are bought by loans camouflaged under such attractive names a guarantee, peace, freedom and resistance to aggie: wu.—Trans-Ocean, Soviet Paper Approvés of Agreement Moscow, May 15.
Approval of the Anglo-Turkish agreement is today expressed by the Government newspaper, "Izvestia."
The Anglo-Turkish mutual assistance agreement which is being prepared, it declares, is a. step towards the creation of an effective peace front, and a link in a chain which is the only effective means for preventing aggression.
Owing to her strategic importance, the paper continues, Turkey has long been the objective of the usurpatory appetites of aggressive countries.
Turkey, concludes the "Izvestia has long felt the danger and this has accelerated the favourable results of the Anglo-Turkish negotiations.—Reuter.
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