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Show j UNLOCKING THE DARDANELLES. Possibility thnf the key to the bar-, bar-, dandles situation may be found at th' H Uiusanne conference, tho Entente al-1 al-1 lies, tho Balkan nlllee. the Turks nni I America, as wpII. Joining in a compari ; ! to keep open tho passageway between the Aegean and Black sias Is shown ! in European dispatches. Only the Russians seem on the other 6jde, that which proposes that the straits be H losed to all excepting Turkey, as tar di warships ar concerned. The Turks have been converted, it m sterns, to the open-door view be- J causo they realize that to maintain their position they would have to build a navy. Russia has had and I U1 have a navy on the Black sea, ! t!fr.n tmm Vn,l ttiiI -111 htva n nilVV I Ion tho Aegean sea. Control of a narrow nar-row strip of land around tho Dardanelles Darda-nelles and Bosphorus would not be r-asy, even if possible, without a navy. There is included in the Entente plan a phase regarding demilitariza i lion of the Dardanelles zone, including includ-ing tho Bosphorus and Sea oi Marmora Mar-mora as well. Those steps which pro-ide pro-ide the open door for Turkey and southern Russia, which eliminate tho danger of European Turkey as a military mili-tary base, which limit armies are all .steps toward a happier solution of tho problems that grow out of the Near East, where national hatreds have been developed and world wars bred |