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Back to Istanbul (Constantinople) last week went Dr. Julius Klein, U. S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce, bubbling with optimism. He had spent two days in Angora, inspected the new Turkish Government buildings and the model experimental farm of Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha.* Said Dr. Klein...
...That other U. S. citizens may see the farm as well, Dictator Kemal posed in dusty fields for four hours the next day while U. S. cameramen recorded the Dictator's farm, with sound...
...whirlwind crescendo rose last week the fortunes of the new liberal party, recently founded in Turkey (TIME, Oct. 6) because Dictator Mustafa Kemal ("The Modernizer") wanted his country to have an "opposition party" like other modern states...
Great believers in thrashing of the young used to be the Turks. But under the Turkish Republic thrashing of servants by masters, wives by husbands, children by fathers, is no longer condoned. Mustafa Kemal Pasha, anxious to make his country as Western as possible, has abolished the schoolmaster's rod along with fezzes, women's veils and the complicated Turkish alphabet. Illegal in their implications now are the old Turkish sayings...
Oddly enough one of Turkey's greatest statesmen thought so little of Kemal's fantastic crisis last week that he chose to be traveling in Russia. Undoubtedly the knowing men of Moscow winked at small, squint-eyed Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey; and probably behind his incredibly thick glasses he winked back...