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...Kuwait's Sheik Abdullah al Salim al Sabah will get more than $200 million in oil royalties this year, the biggest oil royalty cut in the world. He probably has the biggest annual income of any man on earth. All this has come to a land no bigger than New Jersey, which was still living meanly at the close of World War II in an economy based mainly on pearling and Gulf shipping. The men responsible for this revolution-in a land where slaveholding is still legal-are a few Westerners, 45 Americans and 625 Britons, representing the Kuwait...
Curious, Ankara's Yeni Sabah inquired further, learned that Madame Hassanov had been caught reading a forbidden book. The book: Russian Expatriate Victor Kravchenko's terrifying story of life in the Soviet Union, I Chose Freedom...
...forced to choose between fighting like lions or being driven like sheep ... we shall not hesitate to give an example of virile courage that will astonish the world," wrote the Government organ Ulus. "The boasted equality . . . means nothing but equality in slavery under Germany and Italy," scoffed Yeni Sabah...
...last week may have been an indirect clue to Russia's mood. Just after German Ambassador Franz von Papen returned to Ankara with German "offers," the Turkish Government clamped martial law upon the land, ordered blackouts, revised train schedules, declared restrictions on automobile travel. The Istanbul newspaper Yeni Sabah challenged: "We do not recognize the German right to hand us an ultimatum. Germany can speak to us only as equals...
...Turkish newspaper, Yeni Sabah of Istanbul, last week put into plain words the Turkish attitude toward Rumania: "Turkey will enter the war the day a foreign power marches into the Balkans. . . . Our country will not await her turn with folded arms while the Balkans are crushed. That is one mistake we shall not make...