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...long as you can honorably do so, keep Turkey out of war. But if you must go to war, don't fight on Germany's side. With Germany, you lose if you win." -such were the legendary last words of Mustafa Kamâl Atatürk, creator of modern Turkey...
...went to Europe again, to survey the navigation facilities of the Rhine and the Danube. He came home to work on rivers and harbors for a while and go to Army finishing schools. He went back in 1933 to do an economic survey of Turkey for Kamâl Atatürk, stomping much of the country afoot. Dictating eight hours a day for three months, he reduced his findings to a tidy seven volumes. As a result he knows as much about the Army's transportation and supply problems in the Near East...
...period of years and admire him greatly. First of all they argue that it is unfair to apply Western standards to Iran, and then they point to some of the flowers of civilization which have blossomed in the West since 1933. They recall that, unlike Kamâl Atatürk, he had no elite of European-educated intellectuals to help him.‡ "Reza Khan made Iran out of nothing," they say and, knowing Persia and Persians, they insist that force was the only way. As for opium, 60% of the population smokes it. Descended from generations of opium smokers...
...long. . . ." At 56, Ismet Inön#252; still looks old for his age. It is a Turkish saying that Turks age quickly. But in the two and a half years that he has been President he has had problems to solve that would have given Kamâl Atatürk pause...
...Atatürk's great accomplishment, like Peter the Great's, was in breaking with his country's past. Inönii, coming from truly Oriental forebears, is satisfied to let the Westernization jell. He will never be dignified by such a statue as the one of Kamâl Atatürk which dom inates the Golden Horn, showing the great Kamal in a dinner jacket with cuffs on the trousers. Yet when Inb'nu. soon after taking office, had to decide whether to ally Turkey with Britain and France or whether to attempt Oriental...