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    "ocrText": "- 5 -\nLater the British had entered into a definite commitment for delivery on the\nbasis of that list. The Turkish list had remained a dead letter. The British\nlist had not been much better (Mr. Eden said that he could not agree). Mr.\nNuman went on to say that only some 4% of the items on the general list had\nbeen delivered to Turkey. He did not wish to make reproaches. He would only\nstate facts and mentioned in particular the case of lorries of which 300 a\nmonth had been promised. For some time deliveries had been about 160 or 180\na month. In recent months there had been no deliveries at all. Deliveries\ndid in fact represent a very small proportion of promises.\nMr. Eden said that he could not accept Mr. Numan's figures.\nHe\nmust make it plain that the position now was not the position as it had been\nat Adana and he personally would not consider recommending his Government\nnd to supply to Turkey all of the material which had been discussed at Adana.\nMr. Numan remarked that his had only been an observation.\nGeneral Wilson said that even if it had been possible to supply all\nthe items on the Turkish Adana lists, it would have taken the Turkish railways\nthree years to carry them. As it was Turkey had since Adana been supplied\nwith 350 tanks, 48 self-propelled guns, nearly 300 anti-aircraft guns (over\n100 of them heavy) 300 field and medium guns, 200 mortars, rather less than\n500 anti-tank guns, an enormous quantity (about 99,000) of various guns and\nautomatics, 420 mortars, and about one million anti-tank mines for the defence\nof Turkey. It was unfortunately true that there had been a shortage of\ndelivery on motor transport. This had happened because the transport did not\nexist in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Turks had however said at Adana that\nthey had enough to defend themselves except for three anti-tank units and"
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