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...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...
...Ankara's famed Karpich Restaurant Turkish Premier Sükrü Saracoglu ("Sarah" to Allied newsmen) linked arms at the bar with British Ambassador Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen ("Snatch"). They strolled to Sarah's table for a tête-à-tête that was unprecedented because it was public. The fascinated crowds then saw them steal two young women from a table of young British and U.S. diplomats and whirl happily and jovially around the dance floor...
Willkie left Cairo in a big, drab-painted B-24 bomber, transferred somewhere in Palestine to a Douglas DC-3, flew on to Ankara. There he talked with Turkey's jovial, troubled Premier Sükrü Saracoglu and cool Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu. The visitor left Turkey in full agreement with New York Times Correspondent Ray Brock's cable (approved by the Turkish Foreign Office): "Turkey is firmly anchored alongside the United Nations for the war's duration...
...imponderable X in all the Allied calculations for the Middle East. The Russian and British armies in Persia, Iraq and Syria hold guns at Turkey's back-friendly guns, aimed not at the Turks but at the Germans. Turkey's bouncing Premier Sükr ü Saracoglu and the Turkish army's tough, cagey old Field Marshal Fevsi Cakmak have no choice but to play with the winning side...
Last week the German advances in the Caucasus were enough to put the Turks in panic. Premier Saracoglu visited the Caucasian border; General Kiazim Orbay brought up seven Turkish divisions. They were probably there more for effect than for fighting, although the Turkish Government has sworn to battle any invader. The battle for the Turkish gates to the Middle East will be won or lost before an enemy trooper crosses the Turkish border. That battle is being fought in Egypt and the Caucasus...