$80,000,000 Friend

Istanbul learned with delight last week that the loan by which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hopes to win over the Mohammedan Turkish Dictatorship to the cause of Democracy is not to be $30,000,000 as at first announced (TIME, July 25) but $80,000,000. It is all to be spent by the Turks for armaments "Made in Britain." Turkish public opinion is being eased gently up to the prospect of a formal military alliance with Britain, and last week persuasive Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras declared with characteristic finesse: Imagine! Here is a country granting us a loan without asking anything in return. Any other country would have demanded all sorts of privileges. Britain asked nothing. She trusted us as she would a real friend. Britain showed she has faith in us. We will show her that this faith is not misplaced. No matter what happens, never will we be found in a camp opposing Britain. Britain may lose a battle, but never a war. She has money, a navy and character."

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