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...middle of the salt desert of Konya. From the hovels of a dirt-poor Turkish village, the populace swarmed around. Out stepped "an elderly man whose head was wrapped in a dirty rag-possibly a turban, the wearing of which long ago had been banned by the late Kamal Ataturk. The old man, who had been taken prisoner by the Russians in the last war, addressed me in primitive Russian, filling out gaps in his sentence with childlike gestures...
Married. Lieutenant Sabiha Gokgen, 25, only woman officer in the Turkish air corps, adopted daughter of late Dictator-President Kamal Atatürk of Turkey; and Captain Kamal Esiner, aviator; in Ankara...
Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper last week printed the following story about Franklin Roosevelt. In 1937 the President was so impressed by a cinema short on the late Kamal Ataturk's new Turkey that he dashed off a glowing letter to Kamal Ataturk, noted in passing that he hoped to meet him some day. Astounded Ataturk took this passing note very seriously, had his press print the praises of "revolutionary" Franklin Roosevelt, instructed his minister in Washington to ask the mystified State Department just when the President of the U. S. would arrive...
...before Russian troops invaded Poland, the trip grew in importance as the week advanced, as the significance of joint Russian-German aggression swept over the frightened Balkans. A 55-year-old lawyer, nervous, clever, quick-witted Shokru Saracoglu be gan his public life at 40, when Turkey's Kamal Atatürk was consolidating, his power, when Russia on the north was far from strong. A lusty, exuberant Moslem (married, with two children) Shokru Saracoglu has gone through many reputations in Balkan and Western eyes: once people spoke of his freshness and enthusiasm; once people said he had grown...
...from Führer Hitler's book and even improving on his methods, the Turks first asked for (and got) minority rights for their nationals in Hatay, next autonomy for the region, next "independence," with Turkish and French troops jointly "keeping order." At one time the late President Kamal Atatürk backed up his demands by massing troops along the Syrian border. At another time a League of Nations plebiscite was to be held in the district, but when most of the non-Turks banded together and it became obvious that the Turks could not win, the obliging...