Word: celal
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Senator Pat McCarran is not noted for a serene disposition. Last week in Las Vegas, Pat treated President Celal Bayar of Turkey and 100 local notables to a stirring demonstration of temperament. The occasion was a Chamber of Commerce banquet in honor of President Bayar, who is on a good will tour of the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 8). McCarran was a picture of purring amiability until he entered the dining room and took a quick look at the seating arrangements. Then he discovered that he had been seated some distance from Bayar. To make matters worse, Las Vegas' Mayor...
Last week Turkey's head man, solid, stolid President Celal Bayar, came to the U.S. He shook the proper hands, placed the proper wreaths on the proper tombs, beamed the proper smiles and said the proper words to Congress, diplomats and the press. His mission had no specific goal beyond an expression of friendship-no protests to make, no new loans or grants to ask-all in all, a colorless performance by the standards to which Americans have become accustomed...
...Celal Bayar's life has been anything but colorless. The 70-year-old President can look back on his part in the late great Kemal Ataturk's revolt, upon the epic years when a modern nation was created upon the body of a dying empire, upon a successful career in banking, upon a break with the party founded by Ataturk, upon victory in a free election, followed by a dramatic reversal of Turkey's trend toward statism...
...Celal Bayar and his people are not only against Communism; they are in favor of farm tractors, free enterprise, the two-party system and children. The U.S. found Celal Bayar's visit dull and comfortable-a most welcome change...
Their President was unspectacular Celal Bayar, an able banker and one of Ataturk's ministers for five years, his Premier for one. This peaceful transfer of power was not the millennium, but it was the closest approach to it in the Middle East. Ataturk's 15 years of ruthless education and preparation had paid...