Bear-Hug

Deaf as a post, or nearly, is great General Ismet Pasha, Prime Minister. At the railway station in Angora, bleak Turkish Capital, he warmly greeted last week a Greek, famed Eleutherios Venizelos, Prime Minister. Before M. Venizelos could speak, deaf General Ismet embraced him with a bear-hug. Arm in arm they left the station.

Next day the two Prime Ministers signed a Treaty of Friendship & Neutrality, amazing in view of the extreme bitterness of the Graeco-Turkish War (1921-23), followed by the expulsion from Turkey of 1,400,000 Greeks. A second treaty was also signed pledging Greece and Turkey to maintain the present status quo of their naval strengths.

Visiting Angora last week was Hungary's Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen, Prime Minister. Occasion for these two auspicious visits: Seventh birthday of the Turkish Republic.

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