740.0011 European War 1939/15752: Telegram
The Ambassador in Turkey (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 9—2:39 a.m.]
378. The Turkish press published this morning the following joint Turkish-German communiqué:
“During recent weeks press and radio news from foreign sources have sought over and over again and in different ways to give the impression that Germany was formulating demands, exercising pressure, concentrating troops in Bulgaria and was on the point of attacking Turkey.
The Turkish and German Governments which have at no time attached the slightest importance to these tendentious rumors have nevertheless agreed to declare that these baseless publications cannot in any way disturb the relations of trust friendship which the two countries confirmed between themselves by their agreement of June 18, 1941.”
[Here follows report of favorable Turkish press comment.]