Evening star., 1943-12-07
Roosevelt and Churchill Confer
With TurkPresident onW WarRo|e:
5th hArmySmashes NaziDefenses
Talks Declared
As important as
Those in Teherun
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Dec. IA confer
ence OF President Roosevelt
Prime Minister Churchill anc
President Ismet Inonu of Turkey
has been in progress in North
Africa, it was learned today, ano
the results will concern Turkeys
future position in relation to the
Allies war against the Axis.
The participation of Mr. Inonr
In conferences with Mr.. Roosevelt
and Mr.. Churchill apparently was
based on the never supplemented
British-Turkish pact of 1899 which
pledged Turkey to aid Britain in
the event of aggression leading tc
war in the Mediterranean.
The diplomatic correspondent of
the British Press Association wrote
"Churchln and Roosevelt are In
conference with President Ismet
1nonu OF Turkey and their delib-
eratlons may in due course have al
most as important an effect upon
the course and conduct of the wal
as the great inter-Allied talks which
already have taken place in Cairo
and Teheran'
Nazis Report Pressure on Turks.
Inc Berlin radio said that the
conference had been completed in
Cairo and that Mr.. Inonu had re-
turned to Ankara, where the Turk
ish cabinet would meet in special
session.
German spokeSmen meanwhile
told Swedish correspondents that
the Allies are exerting heavy pres
sure to force Turkey to join the
war"
"a Budapest broadcast heard
by United States Government
monitors said Bulgarian Premier
Doorl Bolilov had conferred with
the Turkish Minister to Sofia
after a meeting of the Bulgarian
CABINET last night. 1t declared
that well-lnformed political
circles in Sofia connect this cabi-
net meeting with the Turkish
Anglo Saxon Soviet confer
enCe')
Franz Won Papen, the German
Ambassador, talked for nearly an
hour Yesterday with Turkish Pre-
mler Sakru Saracoglu, Reuters re-
ported today in a dispatch from
Ankara.
There has been no Allied con-
frn1a ton of such a conference.
Cairo dispatches yesterday said the
whereabout OF President Roosevelt
had not been disclosed since he at
tended the three power meeting in
Iran, although it was revealed that
Mr.. Churchill had attended COM
b1ned British-American military
parleys in Cairo subsequent to the
Teheran meeting.
Moving Troops Through Bulgaria.
Reports reaching Budapest from
Sofia, however. indicated that the
NazlS, preparing to meet any change
in Turkeys status. were moving
troops through Bulgaria in the di-
rection Of the Turkish border. Three
motorized German divisions were
said to have passed through the
Bulgarian capital in recent DAYS.
Such troop movements in Bull
garla-the first of the satellites to
fall from the Kaisers orbit in the
World War-might be incidental,
however. to reports of mounting
tension within that country.
Taking Turkish British -Ameri-
can conference for granted, George
Schroeder, political correspondent of
the German Overseas News Agency,
asserted that the Wilhelmstrasse
does not think it fit to consider this
Turkish Allied meeting as Just a
routine trip of the Turkish Presi-
dent"
anglo American sources" he de-
clared hint at the possibility that
the Balkans campaign was discussed
in Teheran and if that was the
case 1t would be imperative to know
what Turkeys attitude would be-"
In London there was little specu-