Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...objective look at the facts does not lead us to the view that "the foreign policy issue is Herter's strongest talking point," as Mr. Hooper holds. Herter voted for the discriminatory provisions of the D.P. bill, for arming Greek and Turkish fascists, against extending power to negotiate reciprocal trade agreements for three years, and for his own bill attempting to put the European economy completely in the hands of private U.S. monopolies...
...thing. He heard that Foreign Minister Ana Pauker had purged his good friend Justice Minister Lucretiu Patrascanu, and lived in fear that he himself would be called home. Last week, within a 24-hour span, four announcements in Ankara gave a clue to his state of mind: 1) the Turkish government announced that Grigor had decided to quit his post and move to Switzerland; 2) the Rumanian embassy announced that he had died of eating poisoned mushrooms; 3) the Rumanian embassy announced that its first announcement was a hoax to get even with the Turks for their announcement...
Ferdinand's chance came in 1887. Stefan Stambolov, Bulgaria's anti-Russian, anti-Turkish "Bismarck," looking around for a new prince, settled on Clementine's Ferdinand. Subsequently, a contemporary account records, Ferdinand, a "handsome, smiling, slender youth, perfectly corseted, lips and cheeks bravely rouged, leaving in his wake an exotic perfume, rode gallantly into Sofia amid the cheers of his devoted people." His confidence in his people's devotion was not unbounded; he kept a pistol on his desk when receiving visitors...
Round Table Discussions: "[They are] . . . like boring a hole through the wall of a Turkish bath...
...Remarkable symbolism, that," observed Alexandre Verdelis, Greek delegate to OEEC, who watched Gaillard. "He collects fragments of English 'Players,' French 'Gauloises,' American 'Chesterfields,' sweet Turkish and powdery Belgian cigarettes. He puts them all together and rolls a smoke that is undoubtedly harmonious...