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By Ed Soyola

I WENT to hear Stuart Davis, New York

artist of abstract painting, speak on “The Shape of Art Meaning” and I'm glad. Bewildered but glad. : There is np uge fighting it,. we all can stand

more exposure to art, music,. literature and 1 say

that because it seems” like the proper thing to say-jn a report about an art lecture “The Shape of, Art Meaning.” - Intriguing title. I was glad it challenged my imagination. . After all, must a title of a lecture tell all? Compare “How to Grow Litghee ‘Nuts" with “The Shape of Art Meaning.” No comparison, is there? The auditorium of the Herron Art Museum was loosely packed with bright-faced folk : who talked in whispers and nodded their heads slowly. I -chose a chair next to a girl with glasses who wasn't whispering or nodding her head. Good for her, too, because she was sitting alone.

DONALD M. MATTISON, director of the art center, introduced Mr. Davis. Miss Specs next to'me fidgeted in her chair as Mr. Mattison gave the opening remarks. She probably prefers fast, precise introductions without long “Adaan’s.” I like them for certain occasions myselfs As luck and culture would have it, the microphone wouldn’t work. Mr. Davis didn't seem to mind. “He began to project his voice to the four corners of the room when suddenly the microphone came to life. For getting the listener to the edge of his seat it's better than shooting off a revolver, Mr. Davis gave a prepared paper. «That means he read his speech. Right off he endeared himself to the audience by stating that he knew what was in the paper since he gave it earlier in the day and he didn't like it. He thought he could struggle through the second reading. THIS 1 want to make absolutely clear before we go into Mr. Davis’ speech I was truly and intensely interested in “The Shape of Art Meaning." A great deal more interested in that than in growing litchee nuts,

It Happ By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Mar. 19—All the world loves a lover, still I'm glad I'm no ladies’ man—Ilike Billy Rose. Heavens to Billy, nn his dates. Let's take up the beauteous Joyce Mathews, who's home from a month in Europe. - Popping in unexpectedly Monday by Pan-American under her passport name, Jane Mathews, she wasn’t detected by the prying press. “Billy and I are still good friends,” she told me in a light, gay, full-of-life voice. “I hope to go out with him. But I haven't seen him yet.” It was silly to ask whether she had any plans to marry the Bantam Barnum: so I asked her. She said, “No.” Her ex-husband, Milton Berle, will vacation soon. She got “kind of home sick” for their daughter, Vicki—hence the early return.

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WELL, it’s always nice to talk to Joyce, even an the phone. Then during the same day there was a tinkle from Billy about an item in my column asking: “Is Melody Thompson's new mink coat from Billy Rose?” “I haven’t bought Melody Thompson a pack f gum let_alone a mink coat,” stated Billy. Goodness. And a wire from Melody. Business was picking up in the yoomance department. “Dear Earl,” the wire said, “Billy bought me , drink at El Morroco, a meal at Luchow’s and nothing else. What's more, I haven't seen him since, nor do I expect to. Cordially, Melody." A drink, a dinner, but, like Billy said, no chewing gum.

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BUT. THAT'S not all. Here's a letter from Billy kidding me, saying, “You've caught me with my plans down" —so he'll confess. He’s really in love with “the swayback Swede, Greta Garbo,” he wrote satirically. “Eleanor understood, and whenever a Garbo picture played she would go to Brooklyn and stay with her mother. “Last July I decided Greta was too sure of me. So in desperation, I concocted a plot: I would make Garbo jealous.” 80 he ran off to Canada with Joyce. to {heaters with her.’ “In spite of this maneuver, the phone has remained black and silent. .Not wanting her to know how despondent I am, T am seen around in the company of various ravishing beauties, But

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Mar. 19 — It was just a little shocking to see the pictures of the smiling Japanese Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura being piped aboard the battleship Wisconsin, with full honors—sideboys, bosun’s whistle and smiles all around. You remember Nomura—he and another Jap named Kurusu were the flimflam artists who were peddling peace to Kill enough time to allow the Jap“naval air arm leave its carriers to flatten Pearl Harbor. It was diplomatic deceit of a high order that Nomura-San and Kurusu-San practiced, and they practiced it so well that they became the first popular whipping boys of the American people when we started off to war. It was only 10 tiny years ago, -and sométimes it seems a million years in the past. Those were the days when the Japs were changed overnight from politely hissing baseball fanciers to yellow rats with saber teeth vermin to be mercilessly exterminated. Now we are ‘all friends again, I see, with Nomura playing honored guest, and over 400 Japanese war eriminals being de-purged from Gen. MacArthur's old lists. The Japs are valued Allies in the East, and once again our little brown brothers. Forgiveness is divine, I know, and wars are not made by people, I know, but it still feels funny to _see the “global criminals” once more as honored members of polite society.

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IT 1S ALMOST possible that if they found Adolf Hitler hiding in a little mountain town somewhere they would fetch him forth with honor. It seems almost a shame, in that light, that we executed so many war criminals, for obviously what was bad yesterday does not have to be bad today, and yesterday's villains are tomorrow’'s chum-buddies. But it's a queer feeling. for those of us—and there were quite a lot of us—who spent two, three, four years overseas, dedicated to the killing of our present allies. The Germans are our friends now, too, and that feels funny. Ten years ago 1 was riding an ammunition ship in the North Atlantic, and you could play leapfrog on Nazi periscopes from Sandy Hook to Loch Ewe. It seems “odd to recall that 10 years ago one of my nice, fresh-faced kids asked me seriously if it would be okay to shoot Germans in the water. o sh0b MY FRIEND Frank Farrell went through a bitter siege against Japs on Peleliu—a rat hunt so awful that Frank's face served as a model for Artist Tom Lea when Tom wanted to paint a picture showing what a combat captain really looked like after a few weeks of jungle warfare. It must be a weird feeling for all the Farrells today “to realize that what they fought so relentlessly on “government order is now a cherished friend and ally. I know fit is wrong of me, and certainly unChristian of me, but I don't believe I am ever

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Mr. Stuart Davis .on “The Shdpe of Art Meaning’: + @- “I think it is apparent that the dominant characteristic: 6f my work is its aflfirmation-of the positive aspects of "life. And while this undoubtedly has its origin as a predisposition in temperament, it has been consciously cultivated, chaneled, and <-methodically carried out.” Miss Specs threw a side ‘glance at me but my brown eyes were glued on Mr. Davis, Don't take me literally. We have a rough road‘ ahead, : “I have done this in the conviction that since subjective experience of absolute completeness afl the context of ‘emotional security that goes with it, is so. frequently given as spontaneous ‘mood there is no good reason to accept anything less as. the norm for realistic meaning of hfe. This is not to say that I'm unacquainted with distraction from ‘hat purpose, or the multiplicity of horrible and distressing situations which make an attitude of objective affirmation difficult to maintain, but common. sense has urged me not to seek them out.”

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ancien adie ode . MISS SPECS exhaled rather sharply and I was on the verge of asking if I could accompany her. The poom suddenly became hot to the point of being unbearable. Mr. Davis rattled coins ‘in his pocket. That sound was coming in clear: “Would you care to join me in trving to identify the denominations of the coins Mr. Davis is jinaling?” I asked Miss Specs. No. Hopscotch? No. .Birl? No log. “To preserve the continuity of the subjective sense , of completeness as the most plausible reality, it is first necessary to recognize and give value to its intuitive manifestations. And second, to make its reality objective as art in the physical action of drawing. To make the shape of the drawing continuous with the subjective intuitive shape has been my intention and degree of accomplishment as an artist.” Oh, there was more, Mr. Davis also showed slides of his work and explained the subject. Abstract art, like I always say, is a challenge. That's safe, One painting stopped Mr. Davis. at it a long time before he said, “1

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what tn say about that.' He took no words out of my mouth. Stimulating evening

Joyce Comes Home: Billy Rose Writes

make no mistake about it—a word from Gee Gee

and the Swedish flag will float above the Ziegfeld.

“Hope you'll pardon my breaking off now. Got to see what Shelley Winters is doing tonight.” Pardon my breaking off, too. I gotta go. The Beautiful Wife is hollering for me. THE MIDNIGHT EARL... The N. Y. Sunday Enquirer is being sold by the William Griffin heirs to Gene Pope Jr., et al, of I1 Progresso, who take over in two weeks. . . . Frank Sinatra arrives this week for his Paramount date, alone. Ava Gardner's staying behind to do a movie. Ella Logan's off from Spain to visit Ingrid Bergman in Rome—and husband Fred F. Finklehoffe scoffs at the rumored split, Frank Costello’s cancer specialist doesn’t treat him any more. He didn’t enjoy his publicity. . . . Jess Block and Eve Sully celebrated their 22d anniversary at 21. We were there with permission of Louis Sobol. Nancy Sinatra was escorted by her old friend, Mannie Sachs. EARL'S PEARLS .-. . Kyle MacDonnell dropped into a cafe so empty that the emcee said, “Good evening, waiters and tables . . .” THAT'S NEW YORK: Phil Reagan asked Ed Sullivan if he might sing some St. Patrick's Day songs on his TV show. Ed said he'd already engaged the beloved Ted Lewis. “Ted's a Jewish boy—tell you what,” laughed Reagan, “I'll ask Milton Berle.” Thus it was the Irish Sullivan engaged the Jewish Lewis and the Jewish Berle engaged the Irish Reagan. And shure and a good time was and will be had by all, faith and mazel-tov. Jack Carson’s buying a home in Long Island because of his B'way show, “Of Thee I Sing” . . . Are the Toots Shor’s being taken up by Palm Beach society? They're headed there for a vacation . . . Composer Alec Wilder's in General Hospital for a leg operation . , . Gloria. Warner, the WW discovery, goes into the Village Vanguard Mar. 28.

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TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Hollywood kids, says Jack Carter, brag: “My daddies can lick your daddies.”

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WISH I'D SAID THAT: Henny Youngman says a near tragedy befell Dorothy Lamour when: she went on a Navy battleship in her sarong. She ‘visited the®galley, and a near-sighted sailor reached for a dish towel. HEALTH HINT from the Cornell Widow: “It vou drink a glass of milk every morning for 1200 months, von'll live fo be 100 years old”... That's Earl, brother.

Ten Short Years Make a Difference

going to be real joyous about Japs or over-cuddly with. Germans. Individuals possibly, yes, but ‘masses, no. I was afraid too much—afraid in air raids in London, afraid at sea of submarines, afraid and monstrously bored on islands. dt was a long, long time before I quit leaping out of beds at night when whistles blew or planes flew low,

YOU CANNOT live on bitterness, of course, and there is no sense in prolonging a finished feud, especially when they tell you you've won it, but I bet figures on the brotherhood of man as felt by veterans toward our new allies would surprise you. It is physically impossible- to tell a man constantly for several years .that one thing is good and the other bad, and then expect him to switch his views to fit a fresh political com plexion. We need the Germans, and we need the Jap: and the war is over, and all is well, but I would nergonally like to see a little less of this joyou: brotherhood between the likes of Nomura and our current fighting men. War may be a game to the professionals, with all forgiven when the final whistle toots, ‘buts to amateurs it seemed pretty serious at the time. We pipe Nomura over a, battlewagon’s side today, in friendship and in hianor. Ten years ago, but for. diplomatic imsnunity, we would have’ cheerfully strung hir up from the yardarm.

Dishing the Dirt Ry Marguerite Smith

Q-—TI have a cabin in Brown County and now that we have water from Nashville would like to beautify my yard. The ground is clay and very hard to get grass to grow, Please tell me 4 fertilizer that is particularly good for this type of ground. John L. Bulger, 3496 Fall Creek Blvd. A—If you want to take a short view of the situation, use one of the complete chemical fer-

"Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

tilizers analyzing rather high in nitrogen (the first number of the three you will find on any fertilizer bag). Such as 9-8-4. Then you will have to bear down hard on the sprinkling. If you want to- establish a lawn that will take much less care, get busy on soil improvement. Easiest and most expensive way to provide grass with the 5. to 6 inches of top soil it needs to really thrive on is to plaster such a layer on top on your hard clay. If this is out of the question top dress with as much soil conditioning material (rich compost, rotted manure, cottonseed meal, etc.) as your pocketbook will allow. If established grass is still plentiful in the yard, apply this top dressing in thin (quarter: to. half inch) layers frequently so you don't smother existing -grass. If present grass is thin, it's wisdom to tear up your lawn and start over. Then you can get soil conditioning materials down at root level where they should be. Top-dressing may introduce weed seeds but its advantages outweigh this factor, to my mind.

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WAR AGAINST MAN'S KILLERS—

Indiana U. Salut

PROUD parent salutes its Olfspeing in’ this month's edition of Indiana University alumni magazine, : This special issue is dedicated to Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis, the story of medical research at the center. Behind the scenes at the vast

medical center, researeh is being conducted into almost every field of human {ll . . a

war against man's killers, At the center are Riley, Laoag, General and Coleman Hospitals, the clinics of the clinical and School of Dentistry. The adjoining Indianapolis General Hospital, VA Hospital, LaRue Carter Memorial Hospital for mental patents and the State Board of Health all co-operate in the center's research program and the mutual pooling of knowledge, facilities and equipments have saved

many lives. » » »

FINANCIAL support from research comes from the State of Indiana and many Indiana organizations. Recognition of the center's program is reflected in the growing number of research grants from national agencies, the American Cancer Society, the Damon Runyon fund, the Army, the VA. to name a few, One big boost was given the center's research program with the completion last year of the research wing of Riley, the state providing a $385,000 building and the Riley Memorial As-

sociation providing $135,000 original equipment together with an endowment for future operation.

Stil lanother aid to cancer re gearch is anticipated with construction of a new cancer research building. The funds have been appropriated, §500.000 from the state and $126,000 from the National Cancer Institute, to enable the concentration and co-ordination of _the Center's many cancer research projects.

" . ~ CANCER research is one of the many important battles

being fought at this major battlefield of war against man’s killers. A key research tool is IU’s mammoth one million-volt Xray machine being used in a five-year research projject using anima 18 to determine whether high voltage X-

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than cancer

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rays are more lower voltage treatment. The Radiology Department's new radioisotope medical laboratory was the first of its Kind in the state. It is especially designed for safe handling and storage of radioactive isotopes, forms of chemical elements which have been made radioactive by methods developed in recent atomic research, ~ = ~ ’ BUT this is only one phase

of research at the center where

doctors and scientists set out to prove that “Knowledge is power,” to conquer “unconquerable’ diseases Almost no phase’ ill is overlooked. New treatments to aid cripples are devised in research in IU Center's Department of Orthopaedic surgery. Frostbite research debunked old theories and new_methods have been devised to avoid in the future such calamity as befell GIs in Korea.

of human

Another project is remarkable repalr. of damaged spinal nerves, new - hope for paraplegics and others crippled because of spinal nerve damage. New techniques to build better teeth are constantly evolv ing in the School of Dentistry. Antibiotics to defeat whooping cough, new weapons against tuberculous meningitis, instruments to aid police in Intoxication research, other new instruments to study the heart from inside--all these are under study by the “men in white” at the IU Center. On paper this research looks like s0 many statistics, It can be translated best to show what it meeans to the individual in the case of a young child who had swallowed lye,

brought to Riley Hospital a year ago. The tot's esophagus was

burned away so that he could not swallow food. But 1U's doctor's tackled the problem, making a substitute food tube from a section of the boy's own

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intestine. Such an operation had been attempted but was seldom successful, because of the prob-

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blood. The IU men reasoned

out a process of relocating the intestine in slow stages as they in animal experi-

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ments that gradual stoppage of the blood to some part of the body has no bad effect, whereas sudden stoppage is harmful, Today that boy eats normale ly, thanks to the “hunch” that grew out of ‘research and was confirmed when it saved a child's life. or

One of Indiana University's best known scientific devices is the '"Drunkometer,” shown ot, with " — ho) & . Harger. Wide a police work throughout the nae tion, the machine measures the alcoholic content of breath from the inflated balloon. Will that new filling hold up? Dr. Ralph Phillips (above), head of the department of dental materials, tests dental materials which must withst pressures in the mouth up to 17,000 pounds per square inch,

By RICHARD HOLLANDER Times Special Writer

ANKARA, Mar. 19—The smallest and most vulnerable allies talk the bravest fight against the threats of

Russian military aggression. We've put $346 million into Greece and $175 million into Turkey, all outright grants, and to hear them talk it has built. confidence — if nothing else. They've bought will to resist. They've bought optimism. That is all. Our post-war military understanding with Yugoslavia goes little beyond mutual defense. Tito remains a Communist dictator. The entire rélationship is coldeygd and realistic. The fact that Yugoslavia is on our side now hasn't changed the grim mood of the country. But this has little to do with the No. 1 problem, defense.’ There's no questioning that Yugoslavia would” fight hard against invasion. The Yugoslav military, sharpened by its guerrilla successes during World War II, boasts it could repel any armed effort by Ruscian satellites, so long as there wasn't too much real: Russian assistance. ” » n “WHAT would happen if Hungary, for instance, invaded?” a young general staff officer was isked. His reply: “It might take us three weeks 0 get to Budapest.” No neutral observer his optimism. The American Milita As sistance Aid Group has been in Yugoslavia only ‘weeks so it is still too early to determine the exact scope and nature of the advice and equipment the Yugoslav forces will need. One basic problem this group faces is the natural, inbred nhesitancy of Yugoslavs—like all people under dictatorship—to speak openly. It will be a long time‘ before there is a free exchange of in‘formation on mutual defense problems, ,

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o n on IT IS estimated that 25 per cent of the total national income is being spent for defense. If so, this is a larger proportion of its resources than any other continental country outside the Iron Curtain is spending, not excluding thé United States. It is responsible in part for the overriding stench of personal poverty in the land. Yugoslavia has large mineral deposits and fertile agricultural areas which, once exploited, could mean a bright future. Now, however, every possible effort is being directed to prevent the overrunning of the country,” as in World War IIL

into Yugoslavia, $1.2 billion

EDITOR'S NOTE: How many millions have we poured into the defense of Western Europe? What have we gotten out of it so far? . These are the questions millions of Americans are asking themselves as Congress debates President Truman’s request for $7.9 billion in new Foreign Ald. Armed with hitherto-unpub-lished figures on country-by-country assistance, an outstanding editor-reporter has traveled through Europe measuring extent of the gains bought by America’s billions. > Here is his analysis, in the third of five dispatches supplied exclusively- through The Times. More than a tenth of the population died as a result of that war, It isn't likely that - after centuries of internal strife there won't _be more of the same. But, hopefully, not now, with the Russian threat foremost in the minds of Serb and Croat alike. ” ” ” GREEKS like to say that they are like Americans, only more 80, They mean that they're volatile, individualistic, warmhearted and the despair of all other people who consider themselves realistic. . Most of the people of Greece have lived in poverty for so long that it has become normal. Only 20 per cent of the total country is arable and most Greeks are farmers. This would be an impossible situation for any but Greeks. — Modern Greeks are far removed from the ancients of the Golden Age, but all ar8und them

are the beautiful, weathered stones of past glories, and somehow, for today's people, the

transition from the time when the Parthenon was new is no more than the blink of an eye. o n n y THE Greeks have had a shooting war more recently than most Europeans. After World War 1I they drove the Com-munist-inspired guerrillas out of the country and they feel pretty good about it, But they could not possibly defeat a major enemy. The Greek Army today has in over-all strength of about 170,000, which 1s about 21.6 soldiers per thousand of population. These troops need all kinds

of equipment and training. Brit-

ish and American training teams which are going through

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Direct Aid Marshall Plan UNRRA Post-UNRRA Mutual Defense Lend-Lease American Red Cross Technical Aid

$ 30,272.000 296,064.000

17,528,000 76,000 719,000

$346.649,000

Export-Import Bank Surplus Property Merchant Ships European Recovery Other

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267,000 $48,332,000

FORCES and guerrilla warfare; needs modern equipment; morale

7” eh Post-war civilian INDUSTRIAL production sharply PRODUCTION cut when Tite broke with Stalin

Reported 25% of total income

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MILITARY GOODS

Heavy equipment needed from us

POLITICAL Tito dictatorship

CONDITION,5, shows no signs of or

the ranks .do just this, but no one has any hope the Greeks could do more than slow down an invasion from the north. » ~ ~ A TACTICAL air force, composed largely of obsolete Hell Divers and British’ Spitfires, ts also being developed. The Greek Navy has the mission of patrolling the islands of the ancient Greek seas, hunting submarines and laying

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Primarily border defense; training, equipment needed: morale high

127% eof 1938

figure, but total output negligible

439, of national budget Nearly all kinds of

equipment needed from abroad

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No. we've Bought Optimism—

But Not Any Real Security

§ 498,698,000 386,401,000 279,7566.000 37,255.000 4,121,000 $.956.000 35.000 181,000

$1.212,402.000

$157.977,000 17,362,000

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$14,563,000 63,096,000 . 29.039,000

$16,913.000 2,543.000 4,852,000 71,089,000 195,000

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Best of smaller countries; morale high: modern arms refitting underway

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175% of 1938, but Turkey is basically agricultural

40%, of national budget

Most heavy equipment needed from abroad

No need to worry: Communists no problem

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mines. For this she uses former U. 8. and British destroyers, corvettes, gunboats and minelayers, plus one crujser.

Politically Greece is. more stable than for a long time. The government of white-

mustached old Gen. Pasteras, the prime minister, manages to keep a small working majority. But, always a thorn in his side, is the opposition leader, * Marshal Papagos, who. ran the

bandits out of the north, Papagos, sulking like a latter day Achilles, never ceases his needling, for instance, “That efficiency in govern= ment—one cruiser and * six admirals , , .” From the plateaus of Anatolia in Asia Minor, Turkey looks westward, increasingly since Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, eliminated the Sultan and made laws against easternism, x

~ » ~ ! GRANTS of nearly $200 mil. lion have helped keep her eyes turned westward since World War II. : Turkey was on the wrong. side in World War I, and neu~ tral in World War II. But there are few among our Allies who feel more strongly about the Russian threat now. The ‘Turks are good soldiers and welcome instruction. The Turkish Army numbers 280,~ 000 men, with a potential of a million, She is working on a program involving 16 infantry divisions, three cavalry divisions, six armored brigades and six mobilization . brigades -which are designed to be expanded to. an equal number of divisions, Her air force now numbers 20,000 men and is di« vided into three air divisions, utilizing all types of aircraft, She'll be switching to jet fight= ers soon, with an American school to do the training. ©

v LJ » n THE Turks. whom most Americans customarily imagine as swinging scimitars, are apt pupils in mechanics. Already, under American guidance, a huge ‘military “vehicle rebuild” shop is in operation, One sees young Turks, whose parents were of the ancient tradition, whistling happily as they take apart carburetors and rebore cylinders. American Army training teams also are an integral part of the new “Turkish Armored Force School ‘where especially selected Turkish officers are trained from the ground up in armored tactics, from gunnery to radio communications, ' A new Navy supply base is to be built on the south coast, With this secure, high strategy in the event of attack by the two dozén Russian divisions known to be in the South Caucasus, would be for the Turks to reregt southward, rip ping up the new roads as they go, until they. reach the rocky heights of the Taurus Mountains. T NEXT: View from the West,

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