Word: rk
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...historical footnotes go, this one was a gem-the news that Turkey's late Kemal Atatürk its first President, had called the British ambassador to his deathbed in 1938 and offered to make him the next President of Turkey. The incredible story appeared last week as part of an otherwise sobersided biography of the late British diplomat, Sir Pierson Dixon, written by his son. Before the Turks could protest, Tory M.P. Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe, a former diplomat, explained that it was all a 30-year-old joke perpetrated by himself. He had written a phony cable...
...style-first person singular. Beginning with World War I, he embarked on a Cook's tour of hot spots and the men who caused them-Lenin founding his Bolshevik regime, Pancho Villa hiding in Mexico's mountains, Sun Yat-sen ensconced in China, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk embattled in Turkey; during World War II, he renewed an intimate working friendship with Douglas MacArthur and later wrote a worshipful biography. He got scoops for all his publishers-Hearst, the New York Sun and, most notably, the Chicago Tribune, which in 1919 published a partial draft of the Versailles...
...statement in TIME'S April 9 review of Kinross' Atatürk that Turkey "through two world struggles has held staunchly with the free world against totalitarian tyranny" is clearly erroneous. In World War I, Turkey was an ally of Germany's against the French-English-Russian-American alliance. In World War II, Turkey remained neutral while the fight was going on and, in fact, provided thousands of tons of valuable chromium ore to the Nazis throughout the war. Finally, on Feb. 23, 1945, about two months before the end of the war and when the outcome...
...courts and the institution of marriage were freed from the control of the mullahs. Women won the right to vote, hold jobs, own property. Polygamy and the veil were eliminated. The alphabet was Romanized and names were Westernized-Mustafa Kemal took the opportunity to call himself Kemal Atatürk (Father of the Turks...
...night, every night, carousing with his cronies. He adopted orphan girls and used them as nymphets. His memory began to fail, his judgment began to go. In 1937 he came down with cirrhosis of the liver, and in 1938 he died. The republic survived, and in it Atatürk's achievement, raddled at times by reaction, still stands: a moderately modern and reasonably democratic Turkey that through two world struggles has held staunchly with the free world against totalitarian tyranny...