Washington, Feb. 27, President Roosevelt yesterday convoked two separate defence conferences to plan means of putting the lend-lease bill into effect.
The President during the morning met Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, Col. Henry Stimson, Secretary of War, Mr. Jo V." Forrestal, Under-Secretary of the Navy, General George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, and Admiral Harold B. Stark, Chief of Naval Operatio: constituted, in effect, a "defence Cabinet."
The President was scheduled later to meet Gen. Sir Hugh Dowding, head of the Royal Air Force Fighter Command, a Harry Hopkin: who recent! n a trip to England for M: to obtain first-hand e RAF. problem Mea lo, debate continued to rage in the Senate on the merits of the lend-lease bill as Administra-
Attempt to Rally Yugoslavia and Turkey Seen in Eden's Visit Britain Interested in Exact Definition of Turkish Stand Against Germany London, Feb. 27.
STORMED British quarters today described the mission of Mr.
Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, and Gen. Sir John Dill, Chief of the General Staff, to Ankara and Athens as an attempt to rally Turkey and Yugoslavia to make a stand together with Greece against further Axis aggression in the Balkans.
The n's objectives, they added, were to obtain the definition of the security zone within which, the Turkish Foreign Minister declared on Monday, "Turkey i: indifferent to foreign activity," and whether this zone appears likely to be shrivelled At first it was understood the zone would embrace Bulgaria, then only southern Bulgaria. But Mr. Eden was believed certain to ask whether the zone includes Greece, especially Salonika, previously always had been regarded a vital to Turkish interests, Sir John and Mr. Eden also were expected here to examine with the Turkish and Greek leaders the most effective m of Britain's future ce-operation.
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