WHAT TURKEY IS THINKING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 87, 5 August 1942, Page 6

WHAT TURKEY IS THINKING

The editor of "Yeni Sabah" (organ of the People's Part}): "We strongly desire European union. Unfortunately the existing European unfion is one of misery, resentment and rebellion. The contemplation of this i,s not calculated to make us weaken our ties with England, buL to strengthen our conviction and our wisdom, concluding 'that such can only be based on respect lor the liberty and the independence of all European nations. Equally well there; should be room for Soviet Russia in this union. As -for this struggle against Bolshevism, we regard it as a sham and a pretext. It is not a struggle against Bolshevism to-day. but an attack on the. Russian Fatherland in order to seize a portion ol it unci turn iL into a colony. Even if there were no Bolshevism in Russia, but Tzaris'm or even Parliamentary Government.. Avar would have eotSi'C jmt the same. Consequently bit us not deceive ourselves or others."

TRANSPORT Some times at night. The wind tugs urgently upon my tent. Eager before I sleep, To bear me to a bush clad slope I know, Where llaming rata glows above the bay. And soon 1 hear the lifting sea-born breeze, Trill on the lute-edged toi-toi spear, And passing up the valley to the falls, Curtseys the raupo reads along the creek. , The air is heavy with the hot sweet scent of gorse. The cattle in the paddock at my feet Plump their patched bellies on the grass and sigh. No longer is this night wind aged and grey (Weary Avitli vagrant years Before a slave's sweat dried oil Cheops tomb) But, as it clutches urgent at my tent, Becomes the young fresh wind, That leaps with laughter from a wave I know, High to the bush-clad bills above the ba3 T . N.Z. Expeditionary Force Times, written in Egypt by 'ESRU' and appearing, in the June 15 isstie.