NEW SPIRIT OF TURKEY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 122, 12 February 1940, Page 3

NEW SPIRIT OF TURKEY

INFLUENCE FELT OVER WIDE AREA

"A few years ago Angora was a remole Anatolian village .with lingering memories of the days when it had been an outpost-of the Roman Empire—you can still see cut in imperishable marble, the Avill of Augustus 011 the walls of the ruined temple," said Sir George Clark, in a recent broadcast.

"Angora to-day is once more the focus of great roads spreading north and south, east and west, but those roads are rail'waj's built by the spirit of men who gave every fibre of their being to the task of re-crcat-

ing a nation; and Angora itself is a city of great buildings, -worthy to be the heart' and capital of a great people. This is typical of the sp-rit which inspired the leaders of Tarkey. That spirit which led them to devote themselves to the development of their country has consistanimated them in the development of their relations with the out side world. In fact, Turkey, by the sincerity and essential rightness of her policy, his established herself as one of the great stabilising factors in the modern world; and of this, the recently signed Angln-Fanco-Turki'sli Treaty is an admirable illustration. This treaty helps to stabilise the situation in the East ern Mediterranean and South-east-ern Europe. Its influence will i?e felt over a very wide area, for Turkey is the leading Power in the Balkan Entente on the on-? hand and in the Saadabad Pact —Turkey, Irak, Iran and Afghanistan—on the other.'"