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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elected its officers for 1967-68: Andrew P. Tobias '68, president Richard T. Howe '69, Jeremy J. Kinross-Wright '68, Stephrn B. Roy '68, Robert R. Weller '68, Jeffrey G. Wright '68, student directors; John F. Bevilaqua '69, treasurer; Max Lee Kiehne '68, clerk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HSA Elects | 5/16/1967 | See Source »

ATATURK, by Lord Kinross. An acute and gripping biography of the mercurial autocrat who, singlehanded, transformed Turkey from a decadent relic of medieval Byzantium into a modern state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Apr. 30, 1965 | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...statement in TIME'S April 9 review of Kinross' Atatürk that Turkey "through two world struggles has held staunchly with the free world against totalitarian tyranny" is clearly erroneous. In World War I, Turkey was an ally of Germany's against the French-English-Russian-American alliance. In World War II, Turkey remained neutral while the fight was going on and, in fact, provided thousands of tons of valuable chromium ore to the Nazis throughout the war. Finally, on Feb. 23, 1945, about two months before the end of the war and when the outcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 23, 1965 | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

...complexities are elucidated - little is known about Atatürk's emotional problems, and Kinross is too responsible to speculate. He simply presents the available facts and sets them in a good light. Kemal Atatürk emerges as a political genius immingled with a moral moron, a man with the intellect of a Western liberal and the disposition of an Oriental despot, a loving father to his country all day long, but after sunset a dedicated lecher and incorrigible lush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father of the Turks | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...scandalous Smyrna massacre of 1922, in which 100,000 Greeks and Armenians were allegedly consumed in a conflagration lit by the victorious Turks, is minimized by Kinross, who accepts the U.S. State Department's conclusions: the death toll was about 2,000, and the fire was started by accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father of the Turks | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

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