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Even so, it was hardly a match for the Communists, who are going all out for international fairs this year, erecting the biggest exhibition building at Damascus, at Izmir (Smyrna) in Turkey, at Salonika in Greece, at Djakarta in Indonesia. Gone were the days when the Soviets sent a few heavy tools and a few heavy-handed "salesmen" with propaganda pamphlets. Now the Communists were smooth fellows, showing off automobiles, caviar, medical equipment and agricultural implements and talking grandly (though also vaguely) of delivery dates and competitive prices. They were courteous as could be. "After all," explained a Red trade...
...smelted and fashioned iron ore into weapons; the kingdom of Lydia (whose most famous ruler was a man named Croesus) first coined money, and Greeks fought Trojans over Helen of Troy (though prosaic modern historians insist that they really fought for control of the Dardanelles). Near one city alone-Izmir, the ancient Smyrna-are mosaics from the cave where sightless Homer strummed his lyre, cliff statues of the earth goddess Cybele, and a wall built by Alexander the Great...
Love's Labor Lost. In Izmir, Turkey, when Salih Ozcan decided to play Don Juan to a neighbor's wife, he waited until the husband had left home, got hopelessly stuck trying to enter the house by way of the chimney, was rescued by neighboring farmers who pulled down the chimney to get him out, received a severe beating, six months in jail, and the bill for a new chimney...
...Buckle Under." Uneasy gratitude was even more pronounced in well-off Turkey, which could afford pride more easily than Greece. There still was overwhelming sympathy for the U.S.; in a square at Izmir last week, Democratic Party Leader Celal Bayar was making a cautionary speech on the U.S. loan, when the S.S. Exchester let out a mighty whistle blast in the nearby harbor. Bayar interrupted his speech, turned toward the ship and saluted the U.S. flag, while his audience did the same...
...Izmir, departing German diplomats burned so many papers that they set fire to the consulate. As the Germans had locked themselves in for privacy, the firemen found themselves locked out. Ankara's swank Karpic Restaurant was the scene of an embarrassing incident. Just as slick German Ambassador (and Spy-Master) Franz von Papen entered, the orchestra was beating out Pistol Packin-Mama. With truly Turkish tact, it slid with few fumbles into the Merry Widow Waltz...