TURKEY: Faces Made and Lost

In Ankara last week Germany tried to save face as desperately as the most flustered Japanese.

Fortnight ago Turkey refused to sell Germany any of the Turkish chrome the Nazis want for airplane engines (TIME, Oct. 13). Last week Germany's fat, blasty negotiator, Dr. Karl Clodius, made as threatening faces as his lardy jowls would permit. But Turkey's negotiator, Numan Menemencioglu, constantly in touch with British Ambassador Sir Hughe M. Knatchbull-Hugessen and U.S. Ambassador John van Antwerp MacMurray, quietly repeated that Germany could have no chrome until Turkey's pledge to sell its whole output to Britain expired in January 1943.

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