Word: kemalized
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...motorcade with Riza Shah Pahlevi. onetime Cossack trooper, riding as King of Kings in a limousine upholstered in champagne-colored silk with gold and jeweled Persian crowns in bas-relief upon each door. Turkish artillery honored His Majesty at the frontier with a salute from enlightened President Mustafa Kemal Pasha's best European cannon...
...Kabul to Ankara where he has been Soviet Ambassador to Turkey for the past eleven years. Lodged in a super-modernistic Soviet Embassy with soaring porches like the wings of an airplane. Comrade Suritz proceeded to give the kind of parties which appeal to champagne-swizzline; Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
Turkey became the first firm ally of the Soviet Union and Jew Suritz crowned his work last autumn, when Dictator Kemal celebrated the tenth year of his republic. From Moscow an imposing delegation of Bolshevik bigwigs went to Ankara and. as a great exception to Dictator Stalin's ban on junketing, were permitted to take along their wives (TIME, Dec. 4). It was svelte Mme Suritz who turned the trick by having Paris gowns ready for the dowdy wives from Moscow and an expert modiste on hand to fit them. Under Dictator Kemal's critical eye, they shone...
Brutally last week Dictator Kemal snubbed the useless loyalty of Turkey's eunuchs. An admirer of Italian Fascism, he had borrowed Mussolini's bachelor tax idea. But when he set out to test it in the district of Smyrna, he chose to forget about Turkey's unique variety of bachelor, unknown in Italy. To the Turkish tax collectors, the eunuchs were neither women nor married men; hence, they were bachelors liable to the tax. Other men could escape the levy by means of a hasty marriage to one of Turkey's still ample supply of women...
...weeks Dictator-President Mustafa Kemal Pasha's men have been wading through the black muck to which fire last December reduced Istanbul's law courts building. All Kemal's fire engines and all his men had not saved the archives holding all Turkey's legal documents from the time of the early Sultans to 1923. Muck were the old debts, the old judgments, the cash reserves. What Turkish firemen had not done, it appeared last week that Turkish melons...