Word: inonu
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Secretive Kamal Ataturk,* "Father of the Turks," is close and noncommittal in his dictatorship. Turkish consulates abroad last week had not even yet been officially informed that famed old General Ismet Inonu, dismissed as Premier, had been officially replaced last month by former Economics Minister Jelal Bayar (TIME, Oct. 11). Since Premier Bayar's elevation, Turkish politicians have been anxiously watching him for any indication of what new policies the Dictator picked him to carry out in the Parliament which sat last week. About all they have seen the Premier do is to stand respectfully at the elbow...
Ousted ex-Premier Ismet Inonu was slated to be elected last week president (speaker) of the Grand National Assembly, which was slated to adopt a new Turkish constitution. But events proved how little even the best informed Turks know the mind of their masterly Father. An obscure wheelhorse, Abdulhalik Renda was re-elected to the Assembly's presidency, and its members listened in vain for Kamal Ataturk to mention a new constitution...