10 JANUARY 1914, Page 1
The appointment of Enver Bey to be the Turkish Minister
of War with the rank of Brigadier-General and the title of Pasha suggests that the Committee means to go full steam ahead with an active military policy. Already a large number of retirements and new appointments are announced. It may or may not be that Enver has been chosen primarily because he is Germanophil. It is enough that he was Military Attaché in Berlin, and is likely, after such an experience, to co-operate more easily than anyone else with the German military mission at Constantinople. The Temps thinks that, as Djavid Bey has postponed his journey to Paris, Turkey has tem- porarily abandoned her thoughts of another loan, and is waiting for something to turn up.
