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...knew his ABC's. Scared and trembling like so many toddling five-year-olds, more than 1,000 potent functionaries submitted willy nilly to the test. Those who flunked out would be demoted or dismissed. Such were the orders of the President of Turkey, stern and ruthless Mustafa Kemal Pasha, called Ghazi, ''The Victorious." Progressive to the point of rashness, President Kemal resolved and ordered (TIME, Sept. 17) that every Turkish official must learn the 26 letters of the Occidental alphabet before the fifth birthday of the Republic. Though examination statistics were not issued, it was reported...
...major event of Turkey's birthday was the broadcasting of a speech by Mustafa Kemal Pasha to every Turkish city and town and to hundreds of villages. Attempts at a similar broadcast last year failed miserably. The transmitter broke down but a few hours after "The Victorious" one had launched into the preface of his famed and unprecedented Seven-Day Speech (TIME...
...sons of Signer Benito Mussolini-Bruno and Vittori?returned, last week, from their Balilla or "Fascist Boy Scout" excursion to Turkey. From President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey they brought a personal greeting, which Prime Minister Mussolini reciprocated at once by official radio...
Unsparing are Mustafa Kemal's efforts to teach his people A. B. C.'s. At a recent dance he stopped the conductor, and showed him how to make a few of the letters. Kemal has even converted his summer palace, beautiful Dolma Bagtche on the Bosphorus into a summer school. Obedient Turkish newspapers print daily alphabet exercises...
Last week President Kemal issued an order which affected even his brilliant Prime Minister, General Ismet Pasha. All deputies (there are 315) must visit their electoral districts, and teach their constituents A. B. C.'s before Parliament opens in November. The deputies know their letters. They have been attending the Dolma Bagtche summer school...