TURKEY: Meeting at Adana

Last week Winston Churchill parted from Franklin D. 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:

"Agreement was reached on the manner in which Great Britain and the U.S. would be able to help Turkey materially to...

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