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Willkie left Cairo in a big, drab-painted B-24 bomber, transferred somewhere in Palestine to a Douglas DC-3, flew on to Ankara. There he talked with Turkey's jovial, troubled Premier Sükrü Saracoglu and cool Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu. The visitor left Turkey in full agreement with New York Times Correspondent Ray Brock's cable (approved by the Turkish Foreign Office): "Turkey is firmly anchored alongside the United Nations for the war's duration...
Turkey is the imponderable X in all the Allied calculations for the Middle East. The Russian and British armies in Persia, Iraq and Syria hold guns at Turkey's back-friendly guns, aimed not at the Turks but at the Germans. Turkey's bouncing Premier Sükr ü Saracoglu and the Turkish army's tough, cagey old Field Marshal Fevsi Cakmak have no choice but to play with the winning side...
...successor, President Ismet Inönü promptly appointed a man whose similar leanings are not taken for granted: robust, greying Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu (rhymes with "marrow jaw glue"), 52, who in his time has held Turkey's portfolios of Finance, Justice, Interior and Education, who has helped President Inönüü plot and steer Turkey's present course. Hearty, bull-voiced Saracoglu sports a Hitler-style mustache and has often been suspected of Axis sympathies...
...local daily newspaper. I got the Deutscher Beobachter, with a curt 'Bitte.' Near by, three American karakul-pelt buyers were deep in wartime prices. They spoke English. Everyone else in the room spoke German. On the wall a German poster announced a UFA film, Wenn der Hahn kräht. All around were pictures of Germany...
...twelve guests for dinner. And he needed household goods; the Embassy did not have a set of glassware that matched. Even if he and British Ambassador Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen had stagged the leading nightclubs until 3 in the morning with Turkey's Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu, there was more formal entertaining to be done. The newly arrived corps of U.S. experts and Lend-Leasers made things especially crowded...