Meeting at Adana

Last week Winston Churchill parted from Franklin D. Roosevelt at Marrakech in French Morocco. The President headed west, for a stopover in Brazil. Churchill--though few knew it--headed east. Last week, with six of Britain's highest ranking military, naval and air force commanders, he turned up in Turkey. On a railway siding at Adana, near the Syrian frontier, he conferred with President Is-met Inoenue, Premier Suekrue Saracoglu, Foreign Minister Numan Menemencoglu (pronounced men-eh-men'-joe-glue) and Turkey's military commanders. The official communique:

"Agreement was reached on the manner in which Great Britain and the U.S. would be able to help Turkey materially to consolidate her own general defensive security. . . . Consideration also was given to postwar problems. . . . On all the principal points identity of view was established."

What Franz von Papen, Nazi Ambassador, who has been wooing Turkey for nearly four years, had to say was not recorded. But the soft "underbelly of the Axis," which Churchill last Nov. 11 had pointed out as one of the Allies' next striking points, seemed to have been softened some more.

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