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Show V ROMANIA sjp jTmmm' & CAWAN ( yugo i: . , ' i.tr j eac- SYRIA I 'j J MEDITERRANEAN ' ? (!, V reul h i TRANS , fc-O - a 'I. .VJ , S' "'""'YiOROAN j, If 1 I ; LIBYA' t EGYPT (.( , pw, GUi'TNV 1 j N- ' 'lLyS JtctA ! Arabia, : -JoJAyJ "I ;" V -y- 1 . i H,H........i; ' r r, . iSW OCiH It!! ti! !!! - I -i " i tTWvfflw j 'l-s J j ' I Hi Hi Ii III lilll'i II T lOil 1111 "illllihnfllii' ifliilinfr,i llinTTll Il h1 'I '11 lllll i Flifl lill tilllil'M'I'MIIHllllll llllll1 inliH"'""-v''-w-""'M COMPLICATIONS FOE BIG FOUE . . . While the Big Four conference In Paris faces many difficult problems involving treaties and claims and boundaries, the Turkish situation presents future complications. In the dark areas shown are the three buffer states of the Near East and Middle East. Here the strategio and economio interests of Russia and the western powers meet. Control of the Dardanelles is a vital issue and Russia has sought to press claims on Turkey's eastern frontiers. Arrows on the map show how use of the straits cuts 3,000 miles from the supply line to Russia. At the opening sessions the Big Four sidestepped the troublesome Trieste and Italian colonial questions and began the consideration of the Italian-French frontier, the size of Italy's future armed strength and disposal of her surplus shipping. France's proposal to add Internationalization In-ternationalization of the Ruhr and detachment of the Rhlneland from Germany to the agenda, added furthei complications. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin caused another upset by Insisting that Belgian, Dutch and Luxembourg representatives be permitted to sit in on such negotiations as spokesmen for nations which suffered heavily through German aggression. |