Smashers' Palaver

Potent though they are in Western Europe, neither Benito Mussolini nor Adolf Hitler who backslapped each other last week in Venice (see p. 16) has smashed a dynasty or made himself supreme to the extent of being able to have his personal enemies hanged at their own doorposts with no questions asked. Last week the Near East waited round-eyed for the conjunction of two such dynasty smashers.

Out of Persia sped a motorcade with Riza Shah Pahlevi. onetime Cossack trooper, riding as King of Kings in a limousine upholstered in champagne-colored silk with gold and jeweled Persian crowns in bas-relief upon each door. Turkish artillery honored His Majesty at the frontier with a salute from enlightened President Mustafa Kemal Pasha's best European cannon.

In Ankara, the raw capital built on a rocky hillside by Dictator Kemal after he smashed the Sultanate, perspiring Turks worked furiously to lay a brand new street to the Persian Embassy so that the King of Kings would not be too severely jounced. The last stages of his journey sped him up the Black Sea on a spruce Turkish battle cruiser to Istanbul, then by train to the Turkish capital. Near Easterners quivered with excitement at palavers scheduled for this week, as the two swarthy strong men gripped hands in Ankara, the King of Kings gorgeous in a Persian uniform blazing with jeweled orders. Dictator Kemal sleek-tailed in a Paris cutaway.

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