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This section offers news briefs regarding various developments in different parts of the world as of August 1951. In Washington, D.C., Gwendolyn Cafritz wrote a guest column for the "New York Daily News" to defend the cocktail parties. In Istanbul, Turkey, actress Virginia Bruce and her rich Turkish husband Ali Ipar, revealed that they were getting a divorce because Turkish law prohibits the commissioning of an officer with a foreign wife. Former Albanian King Zog arrived in Manhattan, New York City.

After the Congress of Erzerum, Mustapha Kemal Pasha, who is supported by the ex-dictator, Enver Pasha, assembled a second congress at Sivâs, Turkey. Here are the principal points on which they have decided: to maintain the integrity of the Ottoman Empire; to cede no territory, either to Armenia, to the new states in process of formation, or to the Allies; to drive the Allies by force from the territories which they actually occupy; not to recognize the central power of Constantinople, and to demand the formation of another government composed of members of the Congress.

This article presents news briefs related to the political developments in various parts of the world. The most notable feature of the struggle in the Somme region is the promptness with which the British, after checking heavy German counter-attacks, have resumed the offensive. In reply to renewed requests from the State Department for a settlement of the ancient Petrolite case, the Austro-Hungarian Government on July 21 asked, through Ambassador for further information on the matter. The nomination of Abram I. Elicits to be Ambassador to Turkey was sent to the Senate last week.

Events in other areas of the war have been dwarfed by comparison with the importance of the attack on the Dardanelles, Turkey, by a combined British and French fleet, under the command of Vice-Admiral Sackville H. Carden. Apart from the consequences, military and political, which a successful outcome to this attack may be expected to produce, the operations themselves are among the few spectacular incidents of the war. To force the passage of the Dardanelles, if that were possible, is so obvious a stratagem, and would lead so obviously to consequences immensely favorable to the Allies, that the question has been freely asked why the attempt has not been made before.

This article focuses on the political developments in various parts of the world. The Nicaraguan and Colombian treaties have been before the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate during the past week. The French Government issued regulations, enforcing the law passed last March, which will seriously affect foreigners, and particularly Americans, residing in France. The tension between Greece and Turkey, which has been sensibly relaxed by the conciliatory tone of the Turkish note sent in reply to the protest of Greece against the treatment accorded to her subjects in the Ottoman Empire.

The article reports that Turkey is being targeted in the ongoing World War II by Great Britain and Germany.

The article presents information on several issues related to war and business in February 1940. U.S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles will be leaving for conferences with top officials in Germany, England and France. A commercial pact between England and Turkey which was signed in October 1938 will go into effect February 19, 1939. A plane is being produced everyday by an American-owned airplane factory in China near the Burma border.

The article reports that Washington officials have decreed the acceptance of the Turkish government ruling in 1930 changing the name of the city of Constantinople to Istanbul instead.

The article focuses on the political and economic conditions of Turkey in 1957 under Premier Adnan Menderes. It states that Turkey experiences inflation and consumer goods shortage since Menderes spent more for public development than the economy could sustain. It mentions that Menderes called for the parliamentary elections to take place on October 27, 1957. It says that the Grand National Assembly hurried for appropriations for highways, schools, and mosque repairs in farm villages.

In this article, the author offers his opinion on the decline of the Turkish empire which reportedly furnished an eloquent theme for historians. He discusses Turkey's political and social condition which is not the home of rulers and lawgivers anymore. It compares the country to Russia which adopted reforms. He comments that the Turkish empire can still be reformed and stresses the importance of examining its history and character.

The article discusses various topics related to politics. It says that the Turkish Government allows authorities to wring something out of people through passports . A Mayor of the Haute-Saône, France placarded a decision on the church door, which states the presence of law to repress disorders. It also mentions the obtrusion of a delegation of neuter or feminine gender in the presence of the wife of Hungary Governor Louis Kossuth to express the desire to achieve freedom of their sex.

The article offers information related to war. Enver Pasha mentions that the enemies of Turkey will be destroyed with the aid of Allah and the assistance of the Prophet. It says that many Englishmen are crying out for an alteration of their address, since the Ottomans have discovered that their culture and that of the Germans are one. It adds that that the victories must be celebrated in Berlin, Germany to provide the underemployed players of orchestral instruments with more employment.

Looks at how heroin and other narcotics enter the United States from Turkey. Poppy fields in Turkey; Revelation that New York City is the main point of debarkation for the heroin in the U.S.; Estimate on the number of narcotic addicts in New York; Foreign aid given by the U.S. to Turkey; Necessity for the U.S. to pressure Turkey to deal with Turkish poppy farmers.

The article discusses the meaning and origin of the term Sublime Porte. It says that the term originated during the Ottoman Empire which means an elevated, lofty door or Deri Alieh in Turkish language. It notes that the Sublime Porte was used following the construction of the Imperial Gate or the Babi Humayoon in the republican city of Byzantium.