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Flags fluttered from every eminence of Ankara's massive, marmoreal railroad station. Guards of honor lined the platforms as Turkey's President Ismet Inonii, in morning coat and striped trousers, stepped forward to greet a king, resplendent in his native garb...
...year-old Jelal Bayar, a hero of the 1923 revolution whose personal prestige is almost as great as Inönä's, the Democrats made a strong showing in urban centers. Pending official figures, Ankara dopesters expected the Democrats to get 50 to 100 seats. Bayar's followers chortled that Inonii himself, revered as the successor of the great Kamal Atatürk, ran sixth in a field of 17 candidates in the Ankara district...
...Meaning of Friendship. Turkey and Iran were still the biggest gap in the Soviet Union's two-continent super-security system. By exerting pressure for concessions, Russia hoped to get the same kind of "friendly" governments in Ankara and Teheran as she had in Sofia and half a dozen other capitals-governments that would see Russian reason...
Down curving Ankara Caddesi, Istanbul's Fleet Street, rushed a mob of students. They poured pell mell into the rickety three-story building housing Tan (Dawn), a leftist morning newspaper edited by smart Columbia University-trained Zekeriya SertelVsiey wrecked the old flat-bed presses, the crowd swept over the Golden Horn to attack the plant of La Turquie, which had suddenly turned leftist when the British withdrew their "favors" at war's end and Soviet agents started buying up thousands of copies daily...
This week long, lean Laurence Steinhardt, who heard the rumblings of Europe for three years as U.S. Ambassador at the Ankara listening post, was off again for Europe. His destination was Prague, where he would be the first U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. With him would be Major General Clarence Huebner, commander of the Third Army's V Corps, who would continue to command U.S. troops in eastern Germany and be military attache at the Prague Embassy...