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...should lead the new Opposition party? His Excellency Ali Fethi Bey. appointed by Kemal Turkish Ambassador at Paris, was recalled. With dazzling celerity a by-election was arranged last week at Smyrna to elect Fethi to Parliament. By order of Prime Minister Ismet Pasha, who was going to be ousted by the coming "crisis." Smyrna police used whips on the rabble to make them turn out at the polls. They could vote, the police told them, either for an obscure and locally unpopular candidate offered by Dictator Kemal's own "Peoples' Republican Party" or for the eminent...
Zing!?a paving stone knocked out Inspector of Police T. W. Fitzpatrick Bey...
...another laid low Acting Police Commandant Major Arthur Remanba Bey. Falling back before the mob police climbed to the roof of the Law Courts Building, too high for brickbats to soar. Firing from this vantage point they put lead and fear into the milling crowd. By evening Egyptian soldiers, called from Sidi Bishr Barracks eight miles away, had restored order...
...last week the Sultan of Oman was glad within him: from Washington had come good news. Henry Lewis Stimson, the faraway, almost mythical Secretary of State of the U. S. was in a mood to play Santa Claus. His gift: revision of a treaty into which Sultan Seyed Syeed Bey was inveigled by shrewd Yankee traders 97 years ago. which provided that U. S. citizens should always be welcomed to Oman's ports, be free to sell or barter their wares without being charged a tariff duty of more than 5%. Also included was a clause providing hospitality...
...Istanbul last week one James Lummox, Negro, issued a call to U. S. Negroes to imitate him-embrace Islam, migrate to Anatolia where there are no race distinctions and where they could get farm land cheaply, turkicize their names (locally his is Ali Mehmed Bey). As evidence of his missionary work he reported that Detroit has 83 Moslem Negro families (names and addresses not given) waiting to follow...