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...democracy became possible only after Ataturk abolished the fez, separated church and state. Pointedly Inonu recalled that during their fight to overthrow the Sultan and forge the Turkish Republic, Ataturk and his followers were formerly proclaimed infidels by the Constantinople Caliphate. "The main point," said Inonu, "is not the pardon of this hodja, but whether we are going to permit the return of this kind of thing...
...Party of Menderes, went out of his way to tell students at Turkey's Air Force Academy last week: "We must never give reaction a chance to return to Turkey." Within 24 hours after President Bayar spoke, Turkey's legislators by an almost unanimous vote refused to pardon Hodja Boyar. For all Turks who believe in separation of church and state, it was a sweet victory, except for the fact that when police went to escort him to prison, Hodja Boyar was nowhere to be found...
Egan also poured out his feelings to world figures, dashed off messages to General Douglas MacArthur ("For many years I have thought you were a phony, but I beg your pardon now"), Russia's First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan ("I believe the bells of the world should be tolled for the death of free speech in the U.S."), proposed to his city council that he and his wife be sent to Russia, where he and Nikita Khrushchev could thresh things out. The council declined...
Last week Attorney Dave Weyer's petition for pardon was sent to Washington's Governor Arthur B. Langlie. With it were supporting statements from the trial judge and the head of the state parole board. Violet Sill, now 37, no longer felt a need to be pushed around, to feel guilty. Chances were good that she would soon be free...
Nepszava, trade union newspaper, pleaded that the general pardon, now extended by Defense Minister Karoly Janza to all who capitulated, be extended to "Soviet soldiers who had come over to the people"-indicating where the Soviet leaders' fundamental weakness might...