Caption on front [translation]: "Person of the Day: Inonu. Turkey has stepped up for an important role in the storm of Germany and Italy's deep resistance against Britain and France. It recently signed a mutual assistance treaty with Britain and is now in agreement with France; it is said that that a treaty with them will …

Caption on reverse [translation]: "No. 7,454 Ismet Inonu. (Turkey) Kemal Ataturk's Successor."

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Turkey's New President. (Istanbul) Domei. With the death of President Ataturk on November 11, General Ismet Inonu was unanimously chosen to be Turkey's second president at an emergency meeting of the Grand National Assembly. Photograph: New President Inonu making his first speech at the Grand National Assembly. [Stamped] December 1938."