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...Stalin got from a party conference a sweeping condemnation of Trotskyites and Zinovievites alike. Trotsky and his erstwhile friends were through. A year later, Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev were formally expelled from the party. Soon after that, Trotsky was forcibly removed from Moscow and sent to Alma Ata in Central Asia. He was expelled from Russia in January...
...making modern Turkey, Kemal Ata-türk, one of the truly great men of this century, enlisted women in his army and abolished polygamy. In 1930 Turkish women got the vote and the right to public office.* Today women cast 60% of the Turkish vote, and three smart women sit in Parliament...
...enough to rule alone. To give Egypt enduring government, the army needed popular support. Iran's mob, the power behind Mossadegh, needed even more urgently the support of the Iranian army. To fuse and discipline army and mob was a task for no one less than another Kemal Ata-türk, whose strong rule made Turkey modern and democratic in one generation. No such towering figure has yet appeared in Egypt or Iran...
...this was clear to a man named Bekbayev, director of the Kazakhstan Institute of Physical Culture. He summoned the Alma Ata captain to his box by loudspeaker and ordered him to let the opposing team score two goals. Unlike fixers in acquisitive societies, such as people who rig games in Madison Square Garden, he did not offer the players money. Said Bekbayev, as Moscow's Pravda reported the incident last week: "Isn't it a clever combination I thought up?" Nevertheless, "the Kazakhstan athletes determinedly rejected Bekbayev's proposal. They continued to strive for first place honestly...
Last week, with Pravda's expose, Bekbayev's career was at an end and the honor of dear old Alma Ata vindicated. So far, no committee of the Supreme Soviet has grilled Bekbayev on television, but an up & coming commissar named Rudolf Tobeyevich Kefauversky is reportedly studying the U.S. record and getting ready to prove that anything the Americans can do, the Russians can do better...