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Birthday. Ahmed Bey Zogu I, King of the Albanians. Date: Oct. 8. Age: 35. Celebration: listening to the roar of 55 Italian warplanes which zoomed down to Tirana to bring a greeting card from Prime Minister Mussolini while a squadron of British destroyers fired a 21-gun salute in the harbor 20 mi. away...
Arabian King Ibn Saud of Hejaz and Nejd last week avoided another operation on his ailing eyeballs (previous operation in 1926), received with joy a prescription for "more powerful glasses" from Dr. Abdul Hamid Bey Fahmy, Cairo specialist...
...this point, with the Opposition created, all seemed ripe for the crisis, but canny Fethi Bey decided to play super-safe. Not wishing to wake up some morning on a gibbet by mistake, the Leader of the Opposition harangued Parliament, proposed that the Deputies elect Mustafa Kemal Pasha-"our Glorious Ghazi, our Victorious One"-to be president of Turkey for life. (His second four-year term expires...
Immediately Opposition Leader Fethi Bey opened fiery attack on Prime Minister Ismet Pasha who, though of course retaining a majority in Parliament, at once resigned. There was talk that Fethi would be made Prime Minister-but the Victorious One did not rush to this extreme. Having heard that in real republics, during a real crisis the President "sends for and consults the leaders of the Opposition," Kemal sent for and consulted Fethi. Next day short, hard-eyed General Ismet, who must have spent a nervous night wondering whether the Glorious Ghazi intended to doublecross him, was summoned to the Presidential...
Oddly enough one of Turkey's greatest statesmen thought so little of Kemal's fantastic crisis last week that he chose to be traveling in Russia. Undoubtedly the knowing men of Moscow winked at small, squint-eyed Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey; and probably behind his incredibly thick glasses he winked back...