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...good family. What makes her unusual in Turkey is that she is also a Communist. Daughter of a high-ranking Turkish police official now dead, she studied medicine in Turkey, attended the Sorbonne in Paris. Two years ago she got out of a taxi on Istanbul's waterfront and was about to board ship for Marseille when the political police grabbed her. On her person the cops found three monthly reports of clandestine Communist operations (Communism has long been barred in Russia-hating Turkey) and other incriminating documents. Sevim confessed, then tried to commit suicide...
...period of relief before the dock workers' strike flares up again, the public needs to reconsider its entire attitude toward this essential industry. For unless there is a basic change in this attitude, all the crime commissions, waterfront commissions, and all the reform attempts of the AF of L will be as temporary as the anti-strike injunction itself...
Secure in his middle-class respectability, the average American has chronically regarded the waterfront as a social leper colony. It is to him a place about which novels are written, but entered only at one's own risk. The waterfront has been one of the last American outposts of the old English poorhouse theory: that improving economic welfare will be but contributing to saloons. This fact has not gone unnoticed or unresented by the many men who load ships to make an honest living. Partly because they lacked alternative help, they have given their support to those leaders...
Perhaps it had to take a national emergency to impress this problem upon the public mind. We only hope it sticks. The AF of L has the right alternative and the inter-state waterfront commissions have the right approach. But the dockers need the understanding of more than organized labor, and state commissions bog down without public support. Stability on the docks will only be realized when the public so acts to show its realization that dock workers are not merely undesirable men in an essential industry, but human beings with the same dignity and needs as everybody else...
...Lindbergh dashes off a telegram to an almost unknown San Diego outfit called Ryan Airlines, gets an answer back the next day: "Can build plane . . . Delivery about three months." Lindbergh heads for the coast, finds Ryan Airlines in a dilapidated waterfront building with no flying field, no hangar, no sound of engines-only the pervasive odor of dead fish from a nearby cannery. But the competent chief engineer, Donald Hall, impresses Lindbergh. The order is placed. With five other transatlantic flights poised to go, a race against time begins...