CULMINATING ACT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 47, 24 February 1945, Page 7

CULMINATING ACT

SYMPATHY WITH THE ALLIES Rec. 11.15 a.m. RUGBY, February 23. The Turkish decision to enter the war against Germany and Japan has been received in London favourably. It is without doubt prompted by the desire to obtain an invitation to the S>an Francisco Conference. Nevertheless, coming though it does at a somewhat late hour when her armed help can be of little importance, Turkey's decision is the culmination of many years of openly-expressed sympathy with the Allied cause. < The Anglo-Turkish Alliance has proved a reliable, if elastic, instrument for furthering the Interests of the countries concerned, and thereby also of those of the United Nations as a whole. Within its framework, Turkey took a series of steps against Germany mainly of an economic nature, leading to a complete rupture of relations last year In the course of doing so, she steadfastly maintained the burden of mobilisation over five years lest at any time it should suit the Germans ii a Tt ck her ' as they did> one hy one all the other European countries lying across their path of conquest. It will never be forgotten that at the time when the British Commonwealth and Empire was ill-prepared for war and stood alone in arms against the Overmans, then at the zenith of their power, Turkey boldly expressed sympathy with the British cause and detestation of what Germany stood for.— xS.U.W.