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Back in Moscow with elegant collections of capitalist evening gowns last week were the wives of the three Soviet delegates who went to Ankara for the tenth birthday of the Turkish Republic (TIME...
...Soviet Education Minister Bubnov. All three big Reds brought their wives. They sailed up the Golden Horn escorted by a squadron of the Red Fleet, disembarked amid thunderous salutes at Istanbul (once Constantinople) and went to sleep in a luxurious Wagon-Lit which carried them 300 mi. up to Ankara (once Angora), the hill-surrounded capital which President Kemal has built at a cost of more than $75,000,000. He never felt safe at Istanbul, too easily menaced by the Great Powers' war boats...
...Ankara and in every other Turkish city, town and hamlet Turks have been taught to sing during the past month a brand new "Tenth Anniversary March of the Republic" with which they greeted "Klim...
Meanwhile the British Empire had moved by flattery to retain the goodwill of Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha. The British Embassy at Ankara conveyed to President Kemal a presentation copy of the two-volume British official history of the Gallipoli campaign...