Word: kam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fabulous reputation was crisscrossed with contradictions. Though he shunned public entertainment, he liked to give lavish drinking parties. In Happy Valley, near Chungking, site of his secret headquarters, he toasted visitors with innumerable kam pels. He could down 18 Chinese wine cups filled with brandy in an evening's bout. He was hard and he was tender. He personally succored victims of Jap atrocities, established orphanages for Chinese waifs. For Communists and fellow travelers, he maintained concentration camps. He was an honest man, scorning the traditional "squeeze." Once he discovered a close friend's malfeasance, invited...
Ismet Inönü, President of Turkey, Sükrü Saracoglu, Turkey's Prime Minister, and Numan Menemencioglu, Foreign Minister, inherited a policy from the man who built up Turkey from the ruins of a degenerate empire. That policy: no entanglement with foreign powers. The great Kamâl Atatürk laid it as a cornerstone of modern Turkey's international relations. Time modified it while he still lived: to maintain Turkey's tottering economy he had to arrange some foreign loans. War modified it still further after Kamâl Atat...
...gate to Turkey's bridge, the issue has changed. The Allies hold something in their hands that Germany never had: the prospect of complete and final victory in Europe and reconstruction of the Continent's political structure. That might mean the consolidation of everything the Turks with Kamâl Atatürk had fought for: a strong position in the Balkans and the Middle East, some territorial gains which would give Turkey more protection against the possibility of future attack...
...Leaders' Man. Saracoglu is one of the few men of Kamâl Atatürk's original collaborators who remains in high office in Turkey (another is Marshal Fevzi Cakmak, Commander in Chief of the Army). He entered Kamâl Atatürk's first Government as Minister of Education. From then on, he was never out of politics. He occupied successive ministries until, on Kamâl Atatürk's death in November 1938, he became Foreign Minister in the first Cabinet formed by President Ismet...
...Government's fear of Communism is another stimulant to Turkish suspicion. Modern Turkey is organized on strict totalitarian lines and is the product of a revolution; 20 years of existence have not yet fully stabilized it. The westernization program of Kamâl Atatürk lifted it out of a medieval slough, but economically and financially it is still far from healthy, and wartime difficulties have stimulated latent inflation...