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Deaf as a post, or nearly, is great General Ismet Pasha, Prime Minister. At the railway station in Angora, bleak Turkish Capital, he warmly greeted last week a Greek, famed Eleutherios Venizelos, Prime Minister. Before M. Venizelos could speak, deaf General Ismet embraced him with a bear-hug. Arm in arm they left the station...
Does anyone doubt this? Curious goings on at Angora last week proved it again up to the Turkish scimitar's hilt. At no end of trouble and no small risk to himself Dictator Kemal, the apostle of "Europeanization" who made Turks take off the fez and put on the hat, provided his beloved country last week with what every real European republic has: a multi-party system, and its result, a crisis...
...there an exchange of winks? Probably not, but possibly. Kemal and Ismet are co-heroes of the Turkish Revolution, might be called their country's Lenin and Trotsky. Gravely the newsorgans of Angora announced that the President of the Republic, having taken advice and counsel, found that His Excellency Ismet Pasha is alone competent to guide the nation through these difficult times, and asked him to form a Cabinet. It was learned "on the very highest authority" that General Ismet, in conference with "leading politicans." was finding it quite possible to form a Government...
...along the Turko-Irak frontier. He found unmistakable traces of oil on Turkish territory not far from the British-owned Mosul oil fields of Irak. It is not impossible that Turkish wells on the new oil fields might. if driven, drain Mosul wells dry.* Succinct was a message from Angora last week...
Berlin's Vossische Zeitung was even franker. Its Angora correspondent cabled...