A New Turkish Cabinet The resignation of General Ismet InOnii,
announced several weeks ago by Kemal Ataturk, from the post of Prime Minister of the Turkish Republic has given rise to many rumours ; it is asserted especially that disagreement over foreign policy has caused Ataturk to dismiss the man who was his Chief of Staff in the Great War, who was Commander- in-Chief of the Turkish forces that defeated the Greeks, and who negotiated the Treaty of Lausanne. Certainly Turkish foreign policy has met with several checks in recent years ; yet the man who must be held chiefly responsible, Dr Aras, the Foreign Minister since 1925, still retains Ataturk's confi- dence and continues in office under General Inonii. And if Turkey feels disturbed by the deterioration of her relations with the Soviet Union, she may feel also that her relations with Great Britain offer her some compensation ; and indeed her co-operation with the Western Powers, as shown at the Nyon Conference, and in the League of Nations Council, is in itself a guarantee that the Soviet Union will remain in essence friendly. The change of Prime Minister is more probably the result of Ataturk's constant desire to stimulate Turkey's political life, and especially, by taking a banker and administrator instead of a soldier, to give Turkey a Prime Minister capable of developing her economic and administra- tive institutions.
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