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...Vashington. It would be nonsense to describe Turkey as a democracy, yet Ataturk's successor, President Ismet Inb'nii, has guided his nation into a freer political climate than it has ever known before. In 1946 he ordered the republic's first multi-party elections. Last week he held his first press conference. The most important opposition to the government's Republican People's Party (RPP) is the Democratic Party, led by onetime Premier Celal Bayar, an old rival of Inonii. There have been frequent suppressions of the press, but newspapers still scream against...
...Inonii's bureaucracy, which rules by the collective and painfully slow decision of its thousands of ministers, secretaries, under secretaries and clerks. The consequences are best embodied in a popular Turkish word, yavas (take it easy). Exasperated Americans refer to Turkey's capital, Ankara, as ya-vashington...
...note from your article "Der Vashington Pust" in TIME, June 26, that those Shylocks, the music publishers, have been at it again with the victim this time no less a personage than the late John Philip Sousa...
...Washington Post March, in two-step time, was taken up by U. S. dancing masters and swept the world. When Sousa's own band played in Germany, his audiences clamored for "Der Vashington Pust." The piece was played, as a "typical American" work, at the dedication of a German monument to Richard Wagner. European composers wrote pieces with titles like Vorwärts-A Washington Post, as if this were a special dance like the waltz or polka. An army officer told Sousa that in a Borneo jungle he met a boy with a violin, sawing out the familiar...
Waiting for President Roosevelt's return from Hyde Park to present his credentials, the new Ambassador last week chatted to newshawks through an interpreter, declared he would learn English in 15 days. To show that he had already made a start he cried: "Vashington! Vunderful! Vunderful...
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