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Cairo purveyed a graceless joke: when Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Ismet Inönü met after Teheran, they dined on warmed-up Turkey. President Inönü and his agile Foreign Minister, Numan Menemencioglu, deserved a better commentary-for, to all intents, Turkey had joined the Allies. She might at any moment be faced with war, either by her own declaration or by German attack...
Anthony Eden last week told the House of Commons what he could about his talks in Moscow with Cordell Hull and Viacheslav Molotov and his subsequent conference with Turkey's Numan Menemencioglu. He made two salient points: 1) knotty issues still remain to be settled; 2) because the U.S.S.R., Great Britain and the U.S. have assumed the final responsibility for reshaping Europe, they must have unfettered freedom to make the final decisions.*Said...
...Moscow was a fundamental change in the diplomatic climate of Europe. Areas of disagreement, acts that previously would have been viewed with suspicion by one or the other of the Great Powers, now seemed to be areas and acts of agreement. For example, Anthony Eden and Turkish Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu certainly discussed Turkish neutrality in Cairo last week with the full knowledge and consent of Moscow. Other signs...
...Allied armies, a choice must be made again. When the choice is made, Sükrü Saracoglu will probably present it to the world. Standing between grim, retiring President Ismet Inönü, Turkey's unquestioned leader, and brilliant, chronically ill Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu, Saracoglu is their front to other nations' statesmen...
...Saracoglu became Prime Minister. To the post of Foreign Minister came tough-minded, able Numan Menemencioglu, probably the most clever and hard-headed member of the trio which now guides Turkey's destiny and a man who follows only one policy: that which best serves his nation. With this shift, direct control of foreign affairs passed from Saracoglu's hands, but Turkey's international relations have remained his principal interest...