Foreign News: Turkey: Apr. 7, 1923

In a statement made in Paris shortly before he left to catch the Aquitania, sailing for the United States, Dr. Fouad Bey, member of the Angora National Assembly and former Turkish Minister of Health, said: " There have been radical changes of attitude in the last few years toward the old Moslem marriage customs. . . . We are determined to conform to custom, and the fact is that I recently traversed all of Turkey and did not find any man with more than one wife! "

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