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...government. He is a devotee of sports, an ardent rooter at Turkish soccer games. Unlike most European statesmen, he is approachable, informal, hearty and direct. He likes the cracker-barrel politics which, in Turkey, take place at small, informal dinners. A U.S. career diplomat of many years standing in Ankara said of him once: "He is more like an American politician than anyone else in European governments...
...comfortably modern official residence in the Cankaya hills, high above Ankara, the Prime Minister has a wife and three young children, two boys and a girl. He has been married 20 years...
...Perhaps Francis Spellman had talked over the project of a Catholic Federation of Central Europe with envoys in Rome and Ankara...
...between the Vatican and the Kremlin, involving, rumor said, a visit by the Archbishop to Moscow, perhaps from Teheran. It was a dizzy prospect to dwell on, for Communism and Catholicism have been archenemies through a bitter quarter century. Yet Francis Spellman may have talked to Russian envoys in Ankara. The dissolution of the Comintern (TIME, May 31) had come in the midst of his mission, and it must have pleased the papacy. The Vatican radio had begun broadcasts to Russia, friendly in nature and designed to dispel the Russian people's "complete spiritual isolation." Moscow had not objected...
...face, Salter's dispatch was one more item in the flood of secondhand reports from Ankara and Istanbul, where anything can be heard and very little can be believed. But for whatever it was worth, it simply recited a series of untenable hopes. It constituted one more bit of evidence that Adolf Hitler cannot avoid catastrophe. He can only strive to postpone...