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Russian Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov paid an informal call last week on Turkish Premier Suekrue Saracoglu. For three hours the men moved their knights and rooks over Saracoglu's chessboard as cautiously as they moved toward fuller and franker understanding of their mutual problems.

Turkey's first move, by President Ismet Inoenue, was to annul a criminal-court sentence of two Soviet citizens found guilty of the attempted assassination of German Ambassador Franz von Papen in Ankara last spring. Moscow countered with friendly press comments. U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt has worked hard to develop the present good neighborliness on the Black Sea. His knowledge of Soviet policy and of Bolshevik leaders enabled him to explain away many Turkish suspicions of Russia which had festered ever since Premier Saracoglu had been coldly received in Moscow in 1939.

The Voelkischer Beobachter hinted darkly that any country acting against the Axis would meet the fate of Poland. Ankara's Yeni Sabah cracked back pertly: "Instead of occupying themselves with dreams, the Germans had better pray to win the war. The Allies are beating the hell out of them."

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