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Last week Turkey's head man, solid, stolid President Celal Bayar, came to the U.S. He shook the proper hands, placed the proper wreaths on the proper tombs, beamed the proper smiles and said the proper words to Congress, diplomats and the press. His mission had no specific goal beyond an expression of friendship-no protests to make, no new loans or grants to ask-all in all, a colorless performance by the standards to which Americans have become accustomed...
...Celal Bayar's life has been anything but colorless. The 70-year-old President can look back on his part in the late great Kemal Ataturk's revolt, upon the epic years when a modern nation was created upon the body of a dying empire, upon a successful career in banking, upon a break with the party founded by Ataturk, upon victory in a free election, followed by a dramatic reversal of Turkey's trend toward statism...
Their President was unspectacular Celal Bayar, an able banker and one of Ataturk's ministers for five years, his Premier for one. This peaceful transfer of power was not the millennium, but it was the closest approach to it in the Middle East. Ataturk's 15 years of ruthless education and preparation had paid...
...taught word: "Zito!" (meaning "long live" in Greek) as King Paul and Queen Frederika debarked from the cruiser Helle. It was the first visit ever paid to Turkey by Greek monarchs. A gleaming white presidential train took the visitors off to Ankara for a station-side reception by President Celal Bayar and Premier Adnan Menderes. High point of the visit would come when the Greek monarchs placed a wreath on the tomb of Kemal Ataturk, the great Turkish strongman who had whipped their armies...
TURKEY (pop. 20,902,000): most progressive Moslem country, with constitutional government, compulsory schooling, woman suffrage. Head of state: President CELAL BAYAR, 67. Armed forces: 350,000 men, 22,000 officers, with a potential strength of 2,000,000; high on courage, low on equipment, planes, training...