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Previously this prohibition-inspired by Turkey's 100% nationalist dictator, President Mustafa Kemal Pasha-had applied only to officers of the Army and Navy and to Turkish diplomats...
...conservative rule like Germany from 1870 to 1914. The danger in the dictatorships lies in the fact that everything depends on the person of the dictator and on the duration of his life. It is hard to imagine a Fascist Italy without Mussolini or a nationalist Turkey without Mustapha Kemal Pasha. At the same time it may be doubted whether the immediate accomplishments of the regime are not too dearly bought. The suppression of free expression and the department of the people from the work of government of the people from the work of government is apt to retard rather...
...Turkey, kinetic President Mustafa Kemal holds that intellectual progress depends solely upon quick assimilation of Western ideas...
Last week Kemal spoke less gargantuanly. First he opened Parliament. Then sonorously he recalled the triumphs of his regime-Sultan overthrown. Republic proclaimed, Calif overthrown, the Church disestablished, polygamy abolished, the fez abolished, women unveiled, and a new Capital built at ancient Angora. Finally the President reported progress in his incessant strivings to "Westernize Turkey." Proudly he declared that 12,000 teachers are now instructing Turks how to write and read their language in Occidental ABC's, though with the same phonetics as of yore...
...celebrated by the two famed founders of the Soviet State: Lenin & Trotsky. Dead is Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, called "Lenin" (TIME, Jan. 28). Banished is Leiba Bronstein, called "Leon Trotsky" (TIME, Jan. 30). Today Red Russia is dominated by a Dictator more egotistical than even Masaryk, more ruthless than even Kemal. He is Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. Because his inflexible will is like tempered metal, the great Lenin called him "Stalin." meaning "Steel." When the eleventh Red Birthday was celebrated. Comrade Citizens rejoiced, gamboled and swigged vodka*-but Stalin remained as usual coldly, inscrutably by his own fireside, never addressing...