TURKEY: Too Little and Too Soon

In Ankara last week the Turkish General Staff suspended talks with a British military mission after a month of inconclusive palaver. Premier Sükrü Saracoglu immediately called in foreign correspondents, gave them a 50-minute exposition of Turkey's present position. The effect of his talk: Turkey is still sympathetic to the Allied cause but is not yet ready to fight for it.

In Cairo last December President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Turkey's President Ismet Inönü reached what they called "closest unity." Since then, the Turks have seen that 1) they can not get all the military equipment they think they need;...

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