Soviet diplomacy, the observers said, aimed to have 'Turkey limit her intlenee inthe' Balkans, maintain neutrality there, protect the. Black Sea to Moscow's benet and take no ction against Germany which would iimoerit the Balkan balance of power.
"Turkey, outside the Balkans, how= ever, world be allowed to respect all her treaty obligations to. France and Great Britein. Thus she would Tett free to take any desired action in the Mediterranean, where the USSR has no intreat "The Dardanelle Would nevertheless have to be closed Sage to the strategic Bloc
to all war operations.
As regards Rumania. Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, these political" quarters aded, Soviet Tussin wlahed them to {orm a neutral Balkan bloc "under Soviet-Turkish influence.
Tin pursuance of this aim, Rumania mizht have to cede Dobrudia to Bul-{aria while the problem of sovereignty ver Bessarabia would be postponed evwnile It Rumania' agreed to heed Sdvice from Boscov.
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