Cold Steel & Heavy Bread

On the right wing of the allied advance last week, the Turkish brigade in Korea ran into Communist fire from a snub-nosed hill. Looking like warriors of another age, in their greatcoats and sweeping mustaches, the Turks applied their standard solution--they fixed bayonets and charged. The Chinese ran.

"We had to put our bayonets back in the sheath," said a Turkish private scornfully. "It was very irritating." The Turks then gave the Reds a lesson in marksmanship. Said a colonel: "When they did hit one of our men, it was in the arm or leg, always. When Turks shot Chinese--bang, right through the eyes." This boast was confirmed by a U.S. major who found scores of Chinese shot in the forehead.

Some small part of the credit for Turkish success in Korea may be due to U.S. bakers, who have learned to make a heavy bread that suits their gallant allies--using wheat and rice flour and olive oil. A U.S. colonel who visited Korea brought back to Washington last week the text of a classic message sent by the Turks to a U.S. supply depot: "Enemy attacked, we attacked. Send us more bread."

In Istanbul, the press proudly announced that Major Sabiha Goekc,en, 36, adopted daughter of the late great Atatuerk and a regular Turkish Air Force pilot, had volunteered for combat in Korea, would soon be on her way. In 1935 she flew against Kurdish rebels.

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