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...Revolutions were ever anti-artistic. The French Revolution did not produce a single opera. Not a single opera, mind you, was composed to praise freedom." The audience began to hiss. Cried Ludwig: "I have met and interviewed three dictators [Mussolini, Kemal Ataturk, Joseph Stalin]. . . . I have found that each was a great music lover. . . ." He summed up by declaring that music, like religion, is a force that can be used by friend or foe alike. Commented the chairman of the Congress, Lawrence Morton: "It was in an excess of tolerance and democracy . . . that we allowed Mr. Ludwig to speak...
...Wily Turk. Throughout the war years, Menemencioglu has been guilty only of being pro-Turkish. To that endeavor, he brought his father's knowledge of politics, the burning patriotism of his grandfather, Namik Kemal...
...Namik Kemal was one of the leaders of the Tanzimatists, founders of the 19th-Century Young Turks, who first began modernizing their country and turning its ideas westward...
...Namik Kemal's son, Mehmed Rifat, a powerful politician, president of the Senate, and for a time Minister of Finance, sent his son Numan to a French lycée, then to Lausanne to study law. World War I was under way when Numan became third secretary of the Turkish legation at Vienna...
Professor Wagner, formerly Superintendent of the Building Department in Berlin and, after the advent of Hitler to power, housing adviser to Kemal Ataturk, has submitted his plans to Joseph F. Hudnut '09, Dean of the School of Design...