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...Ankara, the raw capital built on a rocky hillside by Dictator Kemal after he smashed the Sultanate, perspiring Turks worked furiously to lay a brand new street to the Persian Embassy so that the King of Kings would not be too severely jounced. The last stages of his journey sped him up the Black Sea on a spruce Turkish battle cruiser to Istanbul, then by train to the Turkish capital. Near Easterners quivered with excitement at palavers scheduled for this week, as the two swarthy strong men gripped hands in Ankara, the King of Kings gorgeous in a Persian uniform...
...British Empire's influence in Afghanistan was threatened and ex-King Amanullah today is said to blame Jacques Suritz for having started the seven-year vortex of intrigue which finally sent His Majesty flying for his life (TIME. June 3, 1929). Successful Suritz moved from Kabul to Ankara where he has been Soviet Ambassador to Turkey for the past eleven years. Lodged in a super-modernistic Soviet Embassy with soaring porches like the wings of an airplane. Comrade Suritz proceeded to give the kind of parties which appeal to champagne-swizzline; Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
Turkey became the first firm ally of the Soviet Union and Jew Suritz crowned his work last autumn, when Dictator Kemal celebrated the tenth year of his republic. From Moscow an imposing delegation of Bolshevik bigwigs went to Ankara and. as a great exception to Dictator Stalin's ban on junketing, were permitted to take along their wives (TIME, Dec. 4). It was svelte Mme Suritz who turned the trick by having Paris gowns ready for the dowdy wives from Moscow and an expert modiste on hand to fit them. Under Dictator Kemal's critical eye, they shone...
Meantime diplomats were buzzing in Washington, in Athens and in Ankara on the bare uplands of Asia Minor. U. S. Ambassador Skinner was pressing a request that the Turks arrest Mr. Insull under Article IX of the Turkish penal code permitting the detention of foreigners accused in their countries of crimes not of a political or military nature. A cablegram was delivered from Greek Foreign Minister Maximos protesting the detention of the Maiotis. Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Bey and confrères considered: Should they oblige the U. S. or should they offend Greece? It was not a difficult question...
...sitting in the lounge reading papers after luncheon, five Turkish detectives marched in, surrounded him, lugged him off to the House of Detention near the Mosque of St. Sophia-to lie behind bars until deported. Same day, to make his fate more certain, the Turkish Assembly at Ankara ratified an extradition treaty with the U. S.-a treaty negotiated in 1923, which had lain forgotten for eleven years...