TURNS REGAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 254, 18 June 1932, Page 2

TURNS REGAL

SOVIET RECEPTION TO HONOUR DIPLOMATIC VISITORS. HELD IN KREMLIN THRONE .ROOM. For the first time since the revolution, the former Imperial Palace ih the Kremlin was the scene of a brilliant diplomatic reception, when Premier Molotoff honoured the visiting Turkish Premier, Ismet Pasha, Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey, and thirty-three Turkish representatives of Govermnent departments, Parliament, literature, and the Press, writes Walter Durantay, in the New York Times. Hitherto the Soviet receptions have been held in one of the mansions which have been used as "guost houses." For instance, the recepuon a Lw years ago to Amanullah, when he was King of Afghanistan, was held in a marble dwelling by a millionaire named Vtoroff. But Premier Molotoffs . 500 guests were entertained in the Kremlin throne room amid the glories of vanished Tsarism. The Soviet Government made tremendous preparations for the Turkish officials. The Turkish Foreign Minister joined Premier Ismet Pasha's party in Istanbul by train from Geneva. There was a gala night of grand opera during the visit, a special race meeting, and, of course, the May Day parade in Red Square. The Soviet Foreign Office and the Turkish, Persian, and, perhaps, Italian Embassies arranged lunches or dinners for the Turkish Premier and Foreign Minister and the chiefs of diplomatic missions. On May 2 the guests paid a short visit to Leningrad, and then return2d to Odessa without stopping at Moscow. Although no formal alliance exists between Turkey, Persia, and the Soviet Union, the -pa&Ltwo years have witnessed a striking growth in their friendly relations and co-opera-tion, to which Italy apparently is sympathetic, and which it is hoped will be further cemented hy the Turkish visit.