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...Died. Husseyin Ragip Baydur, 65, Turkish Ambassador to Britain, onetime Ambassador to the U.S. (1945-48) and Turkish delegate to the U.N. General Assembly (1946-47); in London. A strong advocate of closer ties with the U.S., Baydur played an important part in Turkey's flat rejection of Russia's demands for joint control of the Dardanelles...
When Ishmael, son of Hagar, ancestor of all Mohammedans, was born (Genesis 16:11-16), a pessimistic angel acidly remarked that he would be a wild man, his hand would be against every man, and every man's hand would be against him. For two weeks his descendant Ismael* Husseyin wandered like a wild man over the bleak mountains of Anatolia. Every man's hand was against him. Last week they tracked him down...
...Ismael Husseyin stood on that scaffold with the rest of the condemned. While hangmen twisted ropes round his colleagues' necks he suddenly leaped away, fled through the streets followed by whizzing bullets, a dozen yapping curs, and most of Menemen's many...
...price of $500 was put on his head. Fourteen days and nights Ismael Husseyin wandered in the mountains, his bare feet torn on the rocks. Starving, last week he entered a village to search for food. Five hundred dollars is a lot of money to a Turkish village. Townsmen turned him over to the authorities. Next day Ismael Husseyin swung from the gallows he had once cheated, his blackened tongue impudently thrust at his captors. On his breast swung a placard: THUS ARE PUNISHED TRAITORS TO THE RE PUBLICAN REGIME OF KEMAL PASHA...
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