Foreign News: Rearmament Conference

Adept at speaking French, behaving with French politeness and outdoing even French diplomacy when it comes to haggling around a green table are the statesmen of Turkey, first of countries downed in the War to arise under a Dictator. Last week with exquisite politeness Dictator President El Ghazi ("The Victorious One") Kamâl Atatürk ("Father of the Turks'') called at Montreux, Switzerland a conference at which the Great Powers could agree to his tearing up the Treaty of Lausanne, under which Turkey is forbidden to fortify the Dardanelles. This the Great Powers were delighted...

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