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Modern Turkey last week lost her foremost social and political architect. In Istanbul's white-domed alabaster Dolma-baghche Palace, in other days the home of sultans and califs, President Kamal Atatürk, long ill, died of cirrhosis of the liver. Beside his death bed wept his sister and two of his most intimate friends: Ali Fethi Okyar, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's who had stood faithfully by the Grey Wolf's side when Atatürk was waging a desperate uphill battle to save Turkey from dismemberment after the World War; and Sabiha...
Public dancing, which the Father of All Turks had introduced enthusiastically as a part of his Westernization program, was canceled in Turkey on the night the President died, and nowhere could one buy raki, the anisette drink which Atatürk often guzzled for hours on end. Istanbul burst out with such a display of the red-with-white-crescent Turkish flags that although all were at half mast, they made the city look en fete instead of in grief, and the Government asked that all flags except those on public buildings be withdrawn...
Veteran of the modern world's strong men, once called by Britain's Lord Balfour the "most terrible of all the terrible Turks," Atatürk nevertheless left his country with all the forms of democracy intact. To those who looked last week at Turkey as the first real test of what happens when a dictator dies, the answer could be given that Atatürk, admirer of parliamentary government, was not a dictator in the same sense as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Those democratic forms which Atatürk nurtured functioned well last week...
...Battle of Inönü, in 1921, in which he commanded the Turkish troops who routed the Greeks. Prime Minister for twelve years, Ismet Inönü was often called a martinet, is regarded as a brilliant, stubborn bureaucrat. As chaste in his personal life as Atatürk was lecherous, he is violently nationalist. He represented Turkey at two crucial international conferences at Lausanne and Montreux, getting for Turkey virtually all she wanted. French and British statesmen railed at him but the louder their demands, the deafer Ismet Pasha became. A year ago he was forced...
...Ghazi ("The Victorious") died last week, he would have left to the people he ruled so firmly a legacy unmatched by any other 20th Century ruler in material, social, educational accomplishments. Realizing that national prestige paid dividends. President Atatürk, with the driving force of a dictator, built up a modern, mechanized army. That made Turkey sought after by Germany, France and England, as a powerful Near Eastern ally. His Government doubled the country's railroad mileage, started sugar and textile factories, coal and iron industries to make Turkey more self-sufficient. He ordered electrification and reforestation programs...