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...taste of beer and spaghetti (with meat balls) at a little party for which we owe thanks to the Lieutenant who obligingly forgot, for the night, our performances at past inspections. We doubt whether the Navy can show us a man who can hold a candle to "Turk" as far as "chug-a-lugging" is concerned...

Author: By E. MORGAN Vigneron, | Title: ARMY P-1's CORNER | 4/25/1944 | See Source »

...Whirling Turk. Vacillating Turkey vacillated again. Turkish chrome is a vital element in ball bearings, many other steel products. Of late it has moved to Nazi-land in increasing tonnage. Last week Turkey's Foreign Minister Numan Menomencioglu hardly took time to read an Allied protest before calling in the correspondents for a bout of oil-slick doubletalk. Said he: "I had an interview today with the British and American Ambassadors (Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen and Laurence Steinhardt). They each gave me a note and we exchanged views in the most friendly spirit ... of collaboration which characterizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tough Talk | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...first issue of TIME-in- Iran was printed in seven days by Persian and Armenian workmen bossed by a Turk interpreter on Indian and British papers run off from a German-made press-for distribution to American boys who are getting vital Lend-Lease war goods through to Russia. So I guess this new edition is a truly "international" magazine if ever there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

Caleb Frank ("Turk") Gates Jr., 39-year-old chancellor of the University of Denver, .Princeton football and track star of the '20s, son of the longtime president of Robert College in Constantinople, won a major's commission in the Army's Specialist Reserve, will probably be sent to Turkey as an intelligence officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 27, 1943 | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...Minister, gets along best with him across the conference table. The two men became friends in 1939 when the then Foreign Minister Saracoglu cooled his heels for three weeks in the Kremlin's anterooms, trying to negotiate a Russo-Turkish treaty. Steinhardt, then Ambassador to Moscow, had the Turk frequently to bridge parties, at which the Prime Minister plays a canny, steady game. Said Saracoglu last week of the U.S. representative: "There's nothing feeble about your Ambassador's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Choice | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

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