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...have these triumphs celebrated in Yildiz, for centuries the most glamorous and sinister harem in the Ottoman Empire, was the neat idea of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ("Chief Turk"), the progressive Dictator who put Turkish men in derby hats...
...their armaments after their defeat in the World War-threatened to break faith, in imitation of Adolf Hitler. Austria, limited to 30,000 troops by the Treaty of St. Germain, plus 8,000 allowed after the assassination of Dollfuss, sought 100,000 as "absolutely essential." Turkey's pugnacious Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ("Father of the Turks") and Ghazi ("Victorious One"), is suspected of having already fortified the Dardanelles contrary to treaty, hinted that Turkey would now do so openly...
...Dictator Mustafa Kemal's boundless disgust last week, he proved to have been right in his hunch that most Istanbul high-school students would flunk if their helpful teachers were kept out of examination rooms. When this precaution was taken, 75% of the students flunked, created a situation so tense that the Ministry of Education announced fresh examinations for students who failed, added that this time their teachers will be present. After that drastic reforms will be enforced...
...Pasha sped out from Istanbul to Bakirkoy last week with a slogan ringing in his ears: "Assure the independence of our shirts!" In a normal year Turks turn into shirts and shifts some 50,000,000 yards of cotton sheeting. This they have bought chiefly from Japan, but Dictator Mustafa Kemal is now driving ahead with a Five Year Plan to industrialize Turkey and make her self-sufficient. In this program the building of cotton mills was put first "so that the Turkish people shall no longer wear the imported cotton shirts of economic slavery to the Imperialist Powers." Last...
...Accepted with smug satisfaction the happy ending by Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha of the incident in which Turkish shore patrols shot at British officers sailing in Turkish waters, killing one (TIME, July...