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...Turks arrest Mr. Insull under Article IX of the Turkish penal code permitting the detention of foreigners accused in their countries of crimes not of a political or military nature. A cablegram was delivered from Greek Foreign Minister Maximos protesting the detention of the Maiotis. Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Bey and confrères considered: Should they oblige the U. S. or should they offend Greece? It was not a difficult question. None of them minded a bit giving a diplomatic kick to those dogs of Greece...
Last week the Egyptian Government reacted by sending a sharp note to Angora, demanded an apology from Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushdi who used to be an accoucheur. Expert at handling both excited women and excited governments, Dr. Rushdi suavely replied that there had been no insult. "The banquet hall was somewhat overheated," he alibied, "and President Kemal merely invited His Excellency the Egyptian Minister to remove his fez for his own greater comfort...
Actually it was Great Britain, not the League of Nations, which permitted Irak to achieve last week a status thus far denied to Syria (French Mandate) and Palestine & Transjordania (British Mandates). Dryly Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey remarked: "I trust we soon will be able to welcome Syria...
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...
Oddly enough one of Turkey's greatest statesmen thought so little of Kemal's fantastic crisis last week that he chose to be traveling in Russia. Undoubtedly the knowing men of Moscow winked at small, squint-eyed Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey; and probably behind his incredibly thick glasses he winked back...