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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Atatürk's Legacy...
...German Economics Minister Dr. Walther Funk was dispatched from Berlin to the Balkans. Dr. Funk arrived last week in Ankara, the capital of a Turkey which only recently sent a delegation to Britain, sewed up a London loan for rearmament which was said to array President Kamal Atatürk ("Father of the Turks") with the forces of Democracy...
President Kamal Atatürk's habit of renaming Anatolian villages to suit Hittite history has long kept Turkish railway ticket sellers on the jump. When, two years ago, Dictator Kamal Ataturk first made up his mind that the 80,000 Turks of the Sanjak of Alexandretta of French-mandated Syria would suffer unduly under independent Syrian rule, he began his campaign for an autonomous Sanjak by calling the region "Hatay." While sanjak is an old Turkish word meaning district, Hatay was the still older name of the old Hittite Empire. Early this summer the Sanjak became autonomous under...
Suregobble, Surelay, Suremilk, Suretürk, Chick Builder, Calf Builder, Turkey Builder, Turkey Finisher. . . . On such products and the more familiar Gold Medal Flour, Wheaties, Bisquick, is built the $150,000,000 annual business of General Mills, Inc., whose 18 flour mills, eleven feed mills, two cereal mills, six blending warehouses and 71 sales offices dot the U. S. from Honolulu to Boston like Suregobble scattered in a turkey pen. This world's largest flour producer is the result of a 1928 merger of Washburn Crosby Co. and a handful of smaller concerns. In its first nine years...
Statesmen Daladier and Chamberlain are also shopping for Turkey as an ally of Democracy. London reported last week the imminent prospect of a formal military alliance between His Majesty's Government and that of Dictator Kamal Atatürk, a hard-drinking but clear-headed Asiatic general who was pro-Soviet during the years when Moscow made that worth his while, has lately been pro-Nazi, is now emerging as the great Mohammedan champion of Democracy. Kamal Atatürk has now received a $30,000,000 British loan, dispatches confirmed last week, and Turkey has agreed to spend...