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Five Fingers, based on a true war-time espionage tale by the German military attache in Ankara, could have been an important study of how a little man from the lower class becomes a big man from the upper class. As the movie develops, however, it is evident that director Joseph L. Mankiewicz wanted to produce merely an amusing little spy thriller, and that's exactly what he's done...
Greek Foreign Minister to London. But the British also invited Turkey. The conference broke up in bitterness. A bomb exploded in the Turkish consulate at Salonika (Greece); in retaliation Turks erupted in savage riots against Greek minorities in Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara. By now Greeks were thoroughly aroused against both their NATO partners, Britain and Turkey; they got mad at the U.S. as well when the State Department ineptly expressed equal concern to both Turkey and Greece...
Died. Makbule Atadan, 66, sister and last of the immediate family of the late Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ("Father of the Turks"); of cancer; at Gulhane Military Academy of Medicine; in Ankara...
...election, one Democratic Deputy in the national Parliament quit the party, protesting that it "no longer has any concept of freedom and democracy." He teamed up with 19 other former Democratic Party M.P.s who last month rebelled against the leadership and quit the party. The rebels met in Ankara and formed a new party, the Freedom Party. Their platform: the 1950 Democratic program which the Democrats have failed to carry...
Thornburg's recommendations apparently went to roost in an Ankara pigeonhole, and Diplomat Zorlu turned to the U.S. for $300 million. Zorlu's argument was spare and simple: surely the U.S. would not let a stout ally down in its hour of need. Some Washington officials used the word "blackmail...