Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Turkey's head man, solid, stolid President Celal Bayar, came to the U.S. He shook the proper hands, placed the proper wreaths on the proper tombs, beamed the proper smiles and said the proper words to Congress, diplomats and the press. His mission had no specific goal beyond an expression of friendship-no protests to make, no new loans or grants to ask-all in all, a colorless performance by the standards to which Americans have become accustomed...
...Kemal Ataturk's revolt, upon the epic years when a modern nation was created upon the body of a dying empire, upon a successful career in banking, upon a break with the party founded by Ataturk, upon victory in a free election, followed by a dramatic reversal of Turkey's trend toward statism...
...year ago Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey-long traditional enemies-signed a treaty pledging themselves to unite in common defense against aggression. The treaty did not state who was to protect each of the partners from the other two. Last week Yugoslav George Katradjieff stood trial before a Greek court-martial, accused of collecting Greek military intelligence for Yugoslavia. Verdict: guilty...
...Turkish citizen again, Athenagoras has worked hard to make friends with Turkey's leading politicians. He visited the Turkish director of the Hagia Sophia Museum-the first time an Ecumenical Patriarch had set foot within that 6th century shrine of Christendom since it was captured by the Turks in 1453. This was his "wordless answer" to both the extreme Moslems who want it converted to a mosque and the extreme Orthodox who clamor for its reconversion to a church. To newsmen who plagued him for an explanation, he said: "In the time of Byzantium, Hagia Sophia was open...
After speaking in England during Feburary, Hopper will tour western Europe and Greece. During June the State Department may extend his tour to the Middle East, with lectures in Turkey, Iran, and Egypt...