Too Little and Too Soon

In Ankara last week the Turkish General Staff suspended talks with a British military mission after a month of inconclusive palaver. Premier Suekrue Saracoglu immediately called in foreign correspondents, gave them a 50-minute exposition of Turkey's present position. The effect of his talk: Turkey is still sympathetic to the Allied cause but is not yet ready to fight for it.

In Cairo last December President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Turkey's President Ismet Inoenue reached what they called "closest unity." Since then, the Turks have seen that 1) they can not get all the military equipment they think they need; 2) Allied military action has not yet broken the German hold on southern Europe. The Turks are bound to feel that jumping into the war now is like jumping into an uncharted river.

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