Recognized

Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol has a businesslike way of getting along with Turks. The State Department published, last week, some notes exchanged between the Admiral, as High Commissioner to Turkey, and the Turkish Foreign Minister, oily, wiley, bespectacled Tewfik Rushdi Bey. The notes continue, by avowed mutual consent, the modus vivendi between the U. S. and Turkish State Departments which has to be patched up from time to time, because the U. S. Senate refuses (TIME, Jan. 24) to ratify the treaty of Lausanne which would affirm U. S. recognition of the Turkish Government.

The notes exchanged last week state: 1) that the former modus vivendi, recently expired, is extended by mutual consent to June 1, 1928; 2) that the U. S. High Commissioner will be supplanted by a U. S. ambassador and a consul "as soon as possible."

Thus the businesslike Admiral has achieved de facto recognition of the Turkish Government by the U. S. President Coolidge will assumedly make use of his power to appoint an ambassador without consulting the Senate. Between them the President and the Admiral will have largely circumvented the Senate's obstinate refusal to ratify the Treaty of Lausanne.

Seven long years Admiral Bristol (primarily an expert on gunnery, torpedoes, naval aircraft) represented the U. S. before a government admittedly most difficult and intractable toward Occidentals. His diplomatic ability is recognized from London to" Samarkand. Next autumn he will return to his guns, succeeding Admiral C. S. Williams as commander of the Asiatic fleet.