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...dismissed. Such were the orders of the President of Turkey, stern and ruthless Mustafa Kemal Pasha, called Ghazi, ''The Victorious." Progressive to the point of rashness, President Kemal resolved and ordered (TIME, Sept. 17) that every Turkish official must learn the 26 letters of the Occidental alphabet before the fifth birthday of the Republic. Though examination statistics were not issued, it was reported that Prime Minister Ismet Pasha and his entire Cabinet had "Passed...
...would be especially difficult for President Coolidge to make all U.S. citizens write English in Arabic characters because most of them already know how to write in Latin letters: But this obstacle does not exist for President Kemal, 80% of whose people do not know one letter of any alphabet from another. The President hopes that in two years his people, with nothing to unlearn, will have learned to express old sounds in new letters...
...teach his people A. B. C.'s. At a recent dance he stopped the conductor, and showed him how to make a few of the letters. Kemal has even converted his summer palace, beautiful Dolma Bagtche on the Bosphorus into a summer school. Obedient Turkish newspapers print daily alphabet exercises...
...Council proceeded to assemble for the 51st time, under the presidency of M. Hjalmar J. Procopé, the obscure though able Foreign Minister of Finland. It was his turn-alphabetically-to preside. Perhaps he inwardly cursed the alphabet as he scanned Costa Rica's embarrassing question...
Orthodox Mohammedans remembered the ominous adoption of hat in place of fez, the displacement of the Arabic alphabet in the Koran (TIME, July 23), saw in the icy visitation a manifestation of Allah's wrath, turned to the mosques for repentant prayers...