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There has been no U. S. diplomatic representative in Constantinople since diplomatic relations with Turkey were broken off in 1917. Since 1919 Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol (as High Commissioner) has represented the U. S. with great firmness but with warm sympathy toward Turkey. He will this autumn relieve Admiral Clarence S. Williams as commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet...
Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol has a businesslike way of getting along with Turks. The State Department published, last week, some notes exchanged between the Admiral, as High Commissioner to Turkey, and the Turkish Foreign Minister, oily, wiley, bespectacled Tewfik Rushdi Bey. The notes continue, by avowed mutual consent, the modus vivendi between the U. S. and Turkish State Departments which has to be patched up from time to time, because the U. S. Senate refuses (TIME, Jan. 24) to ratify the treaty of Lausanne which would affirm U. S. recognition of the Turkish Government...
Seven long years Admiral Bristol (primarily an expert on gunnery, torpedoes, naval aircraft) represented the U. S. before a government admittedly most difficult and intractable toward Occidentals. His diplomatic ability is recognized from London to" Samarkand. Next autumn he will return to his guns, succeeding Admiral C. S. Williams as commander of the Asiatic fleet...
Since the U. S. Senate has refused to ratify the Lausanne Treaty (TIME, Jan. 31), Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, able U. S. High Commissioner to Turkey, busied himself at Angora last week and was reported to have signed an agreement with the Kemalist Government temporarily extending once more the commercial modus vivendi between Turkey and the U. S. which would otherwise have expired last week...
...Bristol, England, Mrs. Alice Shrive, 55, tradesman's wife, died again last week, thoroughly. Thirty years ago pallbearers carrying her body to a grave, stumbled, caused her to rouse and scold them roundly. Two years later, at her second wake, she sat up on the planks and scolded mourners for wailing. Thereafter she lived to have 31 operations. Neighbors were awed. Last week she died again, of cancer; and relatives, twice duped, cut two of her arteries...