TURKEY: Sinister Applesauce

From the cozy "Home Information Center" at Mount Holyoke, Mass., Miss Irene Roelofs went straight to the American College for Girls at Arnautkeuy, suburb of Constantinople. "One of our tasks," said she brightly last week, "is to rectify and balance the Turkish meal, which usually contains an excess of carbohydrates.

"There are still difficulties about applesauce, though the Minister of Education likes it." Innocent though such words may seem, they took on a sinister significance, later in the week, when one Ibrahim, accused of burglarizing the American College for Girls, appeared in...

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