TURKEY: Invincible

Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President of the Turkish Republic, reviewed his army. They were a fine, upstanding, befezzed lot of men. The President was moved to say:

"The Turkish Army today is capable of facing any enemy. Each of its units is so strong it is certain of overcoming any corresponding unit of whatever army to which it may happen to be opposed. . . . Comrades, it is only by the offensive one can obtain a final decision. I beg you never to lose sight of that."

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