Word: rk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paradise, with hills, valleys and passes that crack riflemen and machine-gunners could hold. Infantry is the Army's pride, as it has been since the days of the Janizaries. The infantry is rendered stronger by the fact that the great Kamâl Atatürk modernized his country with a railway program and built scarcely a single good road...
...Ankara suburb, after being blessed by his wife and mother, and walks two miles to his office, striding so fast that his aide-de-camp has to scamper to keep up. Before lunch the President goes for an hour's gallop through Kamâl Atatürk's farm zoo at Ciftlik. He loves horse racing as well as riding, becomes boyishly animated at meetings. In the evening his recreation is quieter: he likes to have three musicians come to his house and play quartets with him, taking the cello himself. In spite of such relaxation...
...Russia celebrated the 23rd anniversary of its Revolution with a military demonstration and professions of peace, while in Washington tiny Ambassador Constantine Alexandrovich Oumansky served caviar to U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles and to Allied and Axis diplomats. The second anniversary of great Kamal Atatürk's death was commemorated in Turkey, while Turkey's fate was discussed in Berlin . Few nations bothered to mark the 22nd anniversary of the World War I Armistice this week, an irony made more ironical by the fact that last week's most important anniversary...
...Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu, who may soon lose his job on Molotov's demand, entertained patrons of the Karpitch Restaurant in Ankara by kicking up his heels in his famous acrobatic zeybek folk dance, with which he used to delight the late Kamal Atatürk...
...think I've earned a little rest, now I'm going to vegetate in Sussex." Instead the Earl was entrusted with a series of missions in the Near East extremely important to the British Government, which needed to impress the late Turkish President Kamal Atatürk and tough King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Ibn Saud dined with a woman for the first time in his life when he sat down with the Countess of Athlone. Tactful "Aunt Alice" (to George VI) veiled herself like a model Mohammedan woman while in Arabia. (Back home she mildly startled...