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    "ocrText": "- 4 -\ninspecting newly arrived Hurricanes, that we no longer regarded these as the\nmost modern. They were in fact out of date. No doubt imperative considerations\nhad made it impossible to supply better planes.\nMr. Churchill said that the situation had greatly changed since\nAdana. In the interval Italy had fallen and it had been necessary to take\nmilitary supplies for the battle-fields in the Central Mediterranean. As a\nresult the Eastern Mediterranean had not received full supplies. Even so\nTurkish sea and railway transport had been fully engaged since Adana and the\ngreater part of the Adana supplies had been delivered. The result was that\ntoday the Turks were much stronger than they had been at Adana.\nPresident Inonu said that the position taken up by Mr. Churchill\nat Adana had been generous and comprehensible. The situation today was not\nso clear and in fact was not known. Frankly he did not know what was required.\nWas it not possible to get out of the impasse? If a date was fixed for push-\ning Turkey into the war in the near future, e.g. in a matter of weeks, there\nwould be an impasse. Was not the decision of Turkey to come into the war of\nsome importance?\nMr. Churchill said it was fundamental. It represented a new stage.\nThe principle had been established. It remained to study the method.\nPresident Inonu said the question seemed to be when Turkey would\nenter the war. She had stated her conditions. He had spoken of plans of\npreparation and collaboration. Her representatives wanted to know how they\ncould render service. They wanted to know the risks they would run and how\ntheir forces would be used.\nMr. Churchill assented."
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