Show 0 Tribute Dictator to tribute Turks to their dead THE being paid by dictator is impressive in its showing of the affection in which he was held by his people Voluntarily by the hundreds of thousands of-thousands Turks pass his bier as he lies in state at the Dolma palace in Istanbul Friday eleven were killed and many injured as more than s sought to pass his hs cask casket casket about about t-about about 1000 women and children were knocked unconscious in the crush The day before officials estimate more than persons passed by to say farewell to the late president-dictator president and founder of modern Turkey None feared f ared that if he did not perform this rite his absence would be noted by secret police police po po- lice and that the omission would put him in peril of spending the rest of his life in a concentration concentration concentration con con- camp Kemal was one dictator who managed managed man- man managed aged to do his dictating without recourse to bunk He never went around puffing out his chest or making dramatic declarations about the perfidy weakness and decay of all people except his own He never played with the idiotic theory that hat the economic and social disorganization tion produced by a year four-year war was due to 7 0 the evil plots of international Jewry nor did didi L i he find it necessary to keep his subjects' subjects minds off their heir troubles by creating a new war scare t every 10 months i Turkey was completely wrecked by the war After the armistice the vultures gathered around what appeared to be a lifeless corpse The Sick Man of Europe was far sicker than ever before and complete dissolution looked inevitable Then Kemal took hold of things and in a few years Turkey was a completely changed land Turkey entered on the most amazing period of modernization modernization r and renovation in in modern history Kemal didn't do all of this without being a bit rough at times But perhaps But perhaps because T Turkey had never been a country where the ideals of democracy had made the slightest headway this headway this s somehow wasn't so shocking in western eyes For this man was in his own way actually bringing modern civilization to an old backward ignorant ignorant ignorant ant and cruelly inefficient country and despite the price that was paid he left Turkey better off than he found it It would be be going too far to say that a dictatorship dic dic- I is justified in a backward corrupt and reactionary country where the accumulated deadwood of centuries needs to be cleared away Yet some something hing like that is the verdict one comes to to in Kemal's case And the very considerations considerations considerations which leave him looking like a man who on the whole contributed more to civilization f. f than he destroyed make the and the Mus- Mus look just the opposite |