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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1952.
Red Threat
looms
over
SPECIAL
Anglo-Turkish Talks
-UST
London, Oct. 18.
four hundred
years ago Anthony
Jenkinson, an English By VAUGHAN JONES
merchant adventuror
of London, received news
meet
a
oplu
to
Turkey is not only faced with the problem of keeping n big army on foot. Although recent progress bas been astonishing. much of her territory is still poverty stricken. Her peasants three quarters of the population discussions frontier. to that his greatest ambition series of important
live on the land-aften possible
possess onslaught from the southeast.
hovels one-room hnd' been fulfilled. Sultan with Britain's leaders.
The two countries have the Magnificent closest political
And the Turkish statesmen which a hole in the roof lets out Soliman the
and economic are also likely to submit that the smoke. According had granted him safe con- ties. They are joined by the Turkey would make an excellent Western standards, the rate of
discase
high and literacy duct to enter Turkey. Eng- 1930 treaty of alliance between springboard for
In Wid
are UTC members of NATO and called at Turkish ports bo- OEEC. Further, both have vital Britain's icoders will put forward ress of the country has logged and discussing these defence aspects, the industrial and economie pro- fore, but their sailors had interests In the Middle East recently
far considered joint opinions behind her
military pre- been barred from penetrat- requiring the preservation of of both Britain and the U.S.
paredness. The West has there- In
fore the task of building un ing the, Sultan's domain. It security there, and a settlement this
matter. at the Anglo-Egyption dispute.
Turkey's armed strength without Turkey has a key position in that safe conduct
crippling her economy. ot granted to Jenkinson which
history recorda marked the opening of an
fought against era of almost continuous friendship between the two countries.
lish trading vessels had Britain, France and Turkey; they in the event of counter-attack widespread. In many respects.
was
Most Powerful
the
eighteen ware
framework Western security. Her Russia, her hereditary for. And the Soviet today she regards Union, which les against her. Caucasian the
frontier, with
TURKEY, which is turning her eyes increasingly westwards, is the boundary between Europe and
the East.
She is
This week another milestone casternmost bustion stemming suspicion and distrust bred of
Safeguard
MERICAN ald has been de-
signed with this in view, and. Mutual Security Agency funds devoted to capital investment so Turkey can progressively great boost has been given to
nem) Inrming.
was reached with the arrival by the surge of Communism south these battle. Communist threat, increase her national wealth. A
west and south towards the Arab world. And she is the
that
air in Britain of Turkey's Prime
To meet the Minister, Mr Adnan Menderes,
she was, after World War Two, and his Foreign Minister, Mr most powerful of the Moslem spending half her national in Fuad Koprulu. The two states states in the military sense. come on her armed forces. And, men had planned to come last So Britain's leaders have much a nation of only 21,000,000, she July, but due to the illness of to talk over with them. Under way keeping some 400,000 men rate of a thousand a month; the Mr Anthony Eden, British disetalon will be the prospects under arins, Now she is receiv- Foreign Secretary, their visit was for a Middle East Command, in ing great quantities of arms and postponed.
which Turkey would play a key-equipment from the
US part, Bri policy lowards Nevertheless, this year she is Egypt in view of Egyption claims still ending £60.000.000 of ker and her demand £220,000,000 cational income on on the Sudan NOW, the two Turkish states for Britain's evacuation of the detence. | men, in a six-day visit, are Suez Canal Zone: the part which meeting the Queen, Mr Churchill, Tito's Yugoslavia can play in 13 Mr Eden, Field Marchal Lord Balkan defence system; the in- Alexander and other British tegration of Turkish forces into leaders as part of their mission NATO and the Persian oll dis- to underline the friendship be- pute.
Behind Scenes
ment.
Britain and Europe's The talks follow Mr Eden's
Communist threat,
4129
Big Army
THE increase in the efficiency of her lighting forces has been stling An American mission, 1,300 strong. and IL British
Tractors are pouring in at the
coming community has now thousand in com- person with parison with only two thousand four years
In a country Saga. bigger than France, road rushed ahead. development
schemes are being With modern farm machinery. and fertilisers also supplied under America:: ald, they have turned 3,000,000 acres of rough ground, hitherto acres used as sparse grazing land, crop-bearing small holdings.
The road network, which has
charges,
land, into
It reduces
pastern outpost. The two men visit to Belgrade, where he dis- mission have helped to train st to be greatly increased, not have come, according to Mr cussed a number
of the armed forces. of related them in the use of modern equip only provides for greater mobility Eden, "at the earnest wish" of subjects with Marshal Tito. And ment. There are in the country the transport costs in some areas himself and the British Govern- they come at a time when now six American equipped to one
to one tenth of the previous жень. The visit. Is termed a Greece. Yugoslavia and Turkey- armoured brigades, together with courtesy one.
have greatly improved their airborne
units and the The new government, re- The Turkish leaders have an relations in face of the common specialised trong that go to form presenting the Democratic Party extensive programune which in-
a modern army. And a number cludes attendance at a debate In It is understood that Turkey's of great new airilelds have been the House
of Commons, a representatives are expressing built, luncheon at the Turkish Embassy, the opinion that, amongst other The high fighting quality of and the Sadler's Weils ballet. In areas, Eastern Thrace European
her troops known the world addition they are to be guests of Turkey-must be defended. It over. has been proved once again hobour of
of the University of is now the accepted Turkish by their bravery in Korea. London, at a luncheon at
at the view that Ailled defences should Certainly her leaders now wish Senate House, will attend a be established in relation to the to retain friendship with the Turkish Embassy reception, and approaches to the Mediterranean nearby countries in the Middle molar out to Eton and Windsor. along the Pyrenees, Alps, East. But they are sceptical of
But behind the scenes Turkey's Balkans and Caucasus, with an-ithei milltary
value of such representatives are having other line, along; her Pershey dances.
The Legion fights far
RUSSELL SPURR
sends this front-line
cable about a war you can so easily forget. The dateline Is HANOL, Thursday
from the desert...
AID the Foreign Legion sergeant, "Only two dead in the last three weeks. This job's getting easy. Now when I was at Tobruk...."
"On the wrong side." sald the Belgian corporal. "He was In the Afrika Korps, The Legion's full of 'em. To hear them talk you'd think they won the war,"
"Well, we've lost this one." growled the sergeant. He stare grimly into the grey dawn. It was chilly and he shivered. So did I.
The first faint flush of day- light spreading across the sky plçired out a waste soaked
of rain- rleefields, broken by
little islands of vegetation.
for
COMMUNIST CHINA
Herthark huttle aru
SIAM
CAMBODIA
SAIR OR
MASKON
INDO-CHINA
The Viet Min. he added, hold at least half of Indo-China, and: "we can do nothing about "
We climbed the short
up observation ladder and looked Cast to the China Sea.
"Can you are anything?" the commandant asked. There was nothing but riceleids, flat as a tea tray, reaching out into the growing heat haze. The patrol moved on down the road, tiny dots
in the distance. "Somewhere out there .are five
regular
Vlet
Min regiments," said the commandant "Fully equipped, first-rate troops. Only the Legion can really beat them. "But where are they? Wo know they have infiltrated our positions. We know they're walt- ing for A new Communist offensive at the end of this monih, But we can't find them."
So calm
Somewhere among the palms But it is one of the most im and sugar cane were mud and portant roads in the world. wattle villages. Somewhere
Not so long ago, in the days LOOKED back to Hanol, that Inside some of them were the of French Imperial rule, it
до чегу quiet little town, Communist Viet Min, waiting led south to Saigon. They called French, so calm and clean.
It Colonial Route One. Now it
The boulevards, the sidewalk It's no use using your flanks the southern edge of the
cafes,
the
slouching
soldiery, the binoculars," the serge told me. Hanoi perimeter, "You could look for a week and lucky to get 20 miles down. it meals, where every
you're restaurants, the mouth-watering dish is served Then, rat-n-tat! in. see nothing.
daylight-and come
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out of the next clump of Morts. The Road of Death.
.
bushes maced and sagged at the
Не
"Lose this rohd and we lose krices giving a horribly realistic Hanol, lose Hanol and we lose Imitation of a man hit in the Indo-Chino, jose Indo-China and stomach.
you lose Malaya,” sald the These Reds are good troops," sergeant in his guttural French. he added. "Never wante a Ho was something of an amateur bullet. They'll wait until you're strategist.
at point-blank range. Maybu
you
The patrol
"The men with mine detectors marched ahead, covered by the half-tracks' runs.
cost £26ar one! (Inflation is the other enemy).
"No, we cannot afford to lose Itanol," said the commandont, we cannot give in, however much we might like to. We owe that at least to the free world."
At Fort Six
UNS thudded in the distance, bursts of muffled machine- "Keep to the centre of the gun fire rattled down the road. road, Monsleur," advised the The telephone rang, an orderly TIME to move. The young, young lieutenant, "and avold called the commandant.
fair-headed lieutenant, three any potholes; the Viet Min may "Someone's caught it," he months out of the French have inserted mines."
sale
"A patrol has military academy - of SL Cyr
He stopped at the first, fort ambushed at Fort Six. clapped on his helmet. Men uut of Hanol. The first of 22. Alarm bells brought began buckling their equipment, the road.
set at half-mile intervals down garrison to their posts. I #lood | clipping magazines on to machine
beside a machine-gunner storing guna: The two half-tracks, clanked forward in low
-been
the
"We aren't the only people down the Road of Death. After
we were off gear and getting American
which swept out the People's Party two years ago after on unbroken. rule of 27 years, is trying to hand back, much of the country's wealth to private ownership. They have met with opposition from the workers, who have feared a re- turn of the bad old days of private exploitation, But Mr Menderes and his party have encouraged the growth of trade. unions and other workers or-
zaniaation as a safeguard against it. And now, the country's leaders believe they have finally established a true democracy, after six attempts in the last century to do so had failed.
Bear Watched
BUT, whatever the progress Turkey's leaders see at home, they are ever watching Soviet Russia. They fear the Soviet dream of controlling the Dardenelles. And they fear that, one day, Communist plans of ex- include the
pansion might "liberation" of-the Turkish Caucasian provinces of Kars and Ardahan, rich but undeveloped districts, which once belonged to Russia.
The leaders of the New Turkey realise fully that the interests of newly established de- their. mocracy lle with the Altantle Rowers. Mr Menderes and Mr minds as they talk to the leaders
this in Koprulu have
their
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has stoot years at her side when she Was threatened by imperialist con- tinental enemies.
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