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Waiting at the dock was svelte, Paris-gowned Mme Suritz, spouse of the Soviet Ambassador to Turkey. She had wired to Moscow well in advance for the more important measurements of the Soviet Cinderellas. ordered ball gowns likely to please Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha, had an expert modiste on hand in Istanbul to fit them. Used to cotton and worse, the Communist wives reveled in silk. "On my word." said a gallant Turkish Foreign Office official last week, "when the great ballroom of the Sultans in Dolmabagche Palace was filled with 3,000 guests in honor of Soviet Russia...
...issuing of such an order at such a time seemed to indicate a slip between the cogs of Dictator Josef Stalin's complex State machine. Last week that popular cog War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov had not yet returned from his junket to Angora where he congratulated Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha on the tenth birthday of the Turkish Republic (TIME, Nov. 6). Order No. 173 was therefore not signed by "Klim" but by fierce-bearded Vice-War Minister Jan Gamarnik, who looks like a world revolution all by himself. Had "Klim" been in the Kremlin, observers thought, Order...
...Turkey's President, Mustafa the Excellent, wished royal guests for Turkey's birthday party he might easily have had them. All the little lands of Eastern Europe have now awakened to the new importance of Young Turkey. Within the last few months President Kemal has been host to King Alexander and Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, Premier Tsaldaris of Greece and Premier Combos of Hungary. All came for preliminary talks looking toward realization of Kemal's plan for a Balkan Federation economically uniting Turkey, Greece, Rumania, Jugoslavia and Bulgaria. But against this proposal is the French counterplan...
...Turkish city and major town the dawn came up one day last week with the earth-shaking thunder of a 100-gun artillery salute. Three days and nights of sleepless rejoicing, songs, dancing in the streets and every sort of Turkish whoopee began by express order of the Ghazi Mustafa Kemal, blond "Victorious Mustafa the Excellent...
...Years ago General Mustafa the Excellent and his Young Turks had al ready beaten the Allies at the Dardanelles, ousted the Sultan and beaten the Greeks (whom David Lloyd George set against them) before they proceeded to found the Turkish Republic...