TY - BOOK ID - 136292323 TI - Turkey at the Straits : a short history AU - Shotwell, James T. AU - Deák, Francis PY - 1940 PB - New York : The Macmillan Company, DB - UniCat KW - Straits question. KW - Dardanelles Strait (Turkey) KW - Bosporus (Turkey) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136292323 AB - Discusses the history of the political control of the straits--the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles. Includes the texts of some relevant treaties signed from 1920 to 1939. The first half of the history was originally part of a memorandum commissioned in 1918 by the Americans for use in negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference; this was then printed in 1921 as a pamphlet. The second half of the history, which was written by Francis Deák, covers the history of the straits from the Congress of Berlin (1878) until 1939 or 1940. ER -