TURKEY RESOLUTE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21805, 7 November 1940, Page 7

TURKEY RESOLUTE

Solid Barrier Against Aggression British Official Wireless (Received November 6, 6.30 p.m.) RUGB7, November 5. In the House of Lords, Lord Halifax, making a similar statement to Mr Churchill’s referred to Turley. The Foreign Secretary said. “We have been in close consultation with the Turkish Government regarding the situation which has arisen and the attitude of that Government has been stated with great clarity and great resolution by the president in i his speech at the opening of the Turkish Parliament. Thanks to the wise foresighiedness of the Turkish Government, Turkey constituted a very solid barrier against aggression and J have no doubt that your lordships are fully aware of the confidence felt in the ability of the Turkish army to carry out any task that may .all to it. I should take this opportunity of endorsing and repeating on the part of His Majesty’s Government the words used by the president when he said ’the bonds of alliance which united our two countries are solid and unbreakable’. Tire relations of His Majesty’s Government with the Egyptian Government, I am glad to say, are close and cordial as is, indeed, only natural in view of the treaty alliance which the Egyptian Government is implementing in the letter and spirit ox accord with great goodwill.” France Not Sacrificed I.ord Halifax revealed that Britain had repeatedly rejected suggestions from the enemy for agreement at the expense of France. He declared: “We realise the difficulty of Marshal Petain’s position but cannot believe that he would commit France to a course which would stab her former ally in the back.”