FAITH IN TURKEY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1940, Page 5

FAITH IN TURKEY

DECLARED BY LORD HALIFAX SOLID BARRIER AGAINST AGGRESSION. BRITAIN ON EXCELLENT TERMS WITH EGYPT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 5. In the House of Lords, the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, making a similar statement to Mr Churchill’s, referred to Turkey. 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 a speech at the opening of the Turkish Parliament. “Thanks to the wise foresight of the Turkish Government, Turkey has constituted a very solid barrier against .aggression, and I do not 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 fall 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 of Turkey when he said the bonds of alliance which united our two countries are solid and unbreakable. “The 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 of alliance, which the Egyptian Government is implementing in the letter’ and spirit of accord with great goodwill.”