In North Africa's snow-smeared Atlas mountains, Winston Churchill relaxed with easel and paints for a day at his favorite hobby, landscape painting. Then he bade good-by to his good friend Franklin Roosevelt and headed eastward for Turkey.
At an 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.
In an air commodore's uniform Churchill stopped off at the British-held isle of Cyprus. There he gave what many believed was a...
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