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...with Russian troops. By many standards Turkey is a backward country, but the Turks these days have a very simple and clear foreign policy: they are determined to fight on every goat path in the Taurus Mountains and to make the Russians pay & pay for every melon patch in Adana and every back alley in Erzurum. The Kremlin calculators will think twice or more before they take on a people whom they may well regard as Finns with mountains-and a people who would probably get all-out U.S.-U.N. help...
...Turks' reaction to Teheran was the strongest testimony to the success of that conference. They were at last convinced that Britain and the U.S. would not split with Russia, leave a helpless, empty-handed Turkey in the middle. When President Roosevelt sent five planes to Adana to bring Inönü and his party to Cairo, the Turks were not exactly happy, but they were ready...
...Prime Minister Winston Churchill's conference with Turkish political and military chiefs at Adana (TIME, Feb. 8) was followed by other visits of British air, land and sea commanders. Latest visitor was Admiral Sir John Cunningham, new British Commander in Chief in the Le vant, who last week conferred with President Ismet Inönü and Premier Sükrü Saracoglu...
...obscure railway siding at Adana, Churchill and his party camouflaged themselves as tourists (shorts and shotguns) to meet Turkey's Premier Sükrü Saracoglu. The Turks were pleased by Churchill's visit, stayed eloquently mum about the prospects of their joining the Allies...
...Roosevelt at Marrakech in French Morocco. The President headed west, for a stopover in Brazil. Churchill-though few knew it-headed east. Last week, with six of Britain's highest ranking military, naval and air force commanders, he turned up in Turkey. On a railway siding at Adana, near the Syrian frontier, he conferred with President Is-met Inönü, Premier Sükrü Saracoglu, Foreign Minister Numan Menemencoglu (pronounced men-eh-men´-joe-glue) and Turkey's military commanders. The official communique...