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Dapper President Kamal Atatürk, "Father of the Turks," definitely learned last week that a life of ease on a sumptuous superyacht awaited him whenever he felt inclined to leave his pink-tinted villa on the hill above Ankara, and take to Turkish waters. Before the star & crescent could be raised over President-Dictator Kamal Atatürk's gift from his people, however, a diplomatic snarl between the U. S., Germany and Turkey had to be untangled...
Professor Von den Osten of Ankara will join the group in Turkey, and the sextet will then proceed to Lake Van, where they will look up the records of the area. Special attention will be paid to the Acropolis on the edge of the lake. This has not been explored since its destruction by the Scythians from the north many centuries...
Dictator KamĊl Atatürk is not of the stuff to stand for war boats of the Great Powers receiving special facilities in Turkish ports, especially at a moment when Turkey is dropped from their Council. In Ankara last week reports were that General Inönü had backed up Dr. Aras and been cracked down upon for his pains. The British and French were quietly informed that the Turkish Government "interprets" the Nyon agreement as not affording any special Turkish facilities in the pirate patrol...
...draw Dictator Kemal's attention the British Ambassador at Istanbul. Sir Percy Lyham Loraine, Bart., took a sleeping car for Ankara, the new Turkish capital which Dictator Kemal has built among high hills far beyond the range of battleships firing from the coast. On his chosen ground Gazi talked Young Turkey to Sir Percy. The action of the Turkish coast guards, he declared, was fully justified...
Among western mores sponsored by Dictator Kemal Pasha is poker. During the visit to Ankara last month of Persia's King of Kings (TIME, July 2) they sat up over the cards, Turks learned last week, until two hours before breakfast. "I may say that the winnings of our Ghazi ["The Victorious One" ] were large,'' confided a discreet Turkish official, ''but, as is his invariable custom, he refused to keep his gambling gains...