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After waiting for long I have at last found a weak spot. You were not at all clear in regard to the Turkish gentleman by the name of Kemal. On p. 19, June 13, under Turkey, you speak of Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha and in the next paragraph you speak of Divisional Commander Kemal without explaining that you were talking about two men, each with the name Kemal...
Recently brisk little Premier Ismet Pasha made a goodwill visit to Moscow (TIME, May 9) on which he scooped up an $8,000,000 loan, payable in Soviet goods, repayable in Turkish. Last week, Premier Ismet fraternized with Premier Mussolini, sipped his Asti spumante, swallowed his spaghetti, toyed with his black olives and figuratively held out an upturned Turkish palm. After dinner Il Duce entertained his Turkish friend by playing the violin. When Premier Ismet finally left for home he had secured a $15,000,000 loan, one-third in cash, the rest in Italian manufactures...
Meanwhile the British Empire had moved by flattery to retain the goodwill of Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha. The British Embassy at Ankara conveyed to President Kemal a presentation copy of the two-volume British official history of the Gallipoli campaign...
Snappy was the word exactly to describe General Ismet Pasha, Turkish Premier as he stepped from his private car, immaculate. Behind him trudged Turkish Proxy No. 2 whom no valet could make snappy ? peering, stoop-shouldered Dr Tewfik Rushdi Bey, Foreign Minister. Once an accoucheur, the patient, fumbling Tewfik wears high-powered spectacles with the thickest lenses in all Turkey. He, by six years of astute diplomacy, has made the Soviet Union small Turkey's fast & firm friend. While a Red Army commander stepped forward to greet General Ismet, Tewfik talked with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov winced...
...dance (badly). From a fox-trot the orchestra switched to a tango, then to a throbbing Cuban rumba. In 20 minutes scores of Comrades and their wives were cavorting like Capitalists. Later there were caviar, French champagne, rich Russian pastries. The revel continued until dawn. Said Premier General Ismet Pasha, on behalf of Turkish Dictator Kemal, "I and the whole Turkish delegation [34]; have an unforgettable impression of the magnificence of our reception...