TURKEY: President & Pacifiers

Secretive Kamal Ataturk,* "Father of the Turks," is close and noncommittal in his dictatorship. Turkish consulates abroad last week had not even yet been officially informed that famed old General Ismet Inonu, dismissed as Premier, had been officially replaced last month by former Economics Minister Jelal Bayar (TIME, Oct. 11). Since Premier Bayar's elevation, Turkish politicians have been anxiously watching him for any indication of what new policies the Dictator picked him to carry out in the Parliament which sat last week. About all they have seen the Premier do is to...

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