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Extracurricular. In Ankara, the Turkish Ministry of National Education issued a ruling specifically prohibiting professors from: 1) marrying foreign women; 2) living with them...
...France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, Marshal Alphonse Juin and the late General de Lattre de Tassigny, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, Portugal's Premier Salazar, Italy's Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi and Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. From Oslo to Lisbon to Ankara, Eisenhower impressed himself on governments and peoples as the unifying leader in resistance to Communism...
General Matthew B. Ridgway flew to Turkey to inspect the easternmost outpost of his NATO command. He conferred with the U.S. military mission in Ankara, inspected units of the tough, well-trained Turkish army, and journeyed to Turkey's mountain frontier with Russia. There, General Ridgway looked around with the help of a B.C. scope...
...waved paper Greek flags and shouted a newly taught word: "Zito!" (meaning "long live" in Greek) as King Paul and Queen Frederika debarked from the cruiser Helle. It was the first visit ever paid to Turkey by Greek monarchs. A gleaming white presidential train took the visitors off to Ankara for a station-side reception by President Celal Bayar and Premier Adnan Menderes. High point of the visit would come when the Greek monarchs placed a wreath on the tomb of Kemal Ataturk, the great Turkish strongman who had whipped their armies...
Five Fingers tells the extraordinary (and presumably true) story of a valet who succeeded in photographing numerous top-secret Allied documents (including plans for the Normandy invasion) at the British Embassy in Ankara during the summer of 1944 and then selling them at extravagant prices to the Germans. Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and based on a book by L. C. Mayzisch called Operation Cicerco, the picture is frequently amusing and always exciting...