Word: chiselhurst
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...child she received her education first from an English governess; later, at Tudor Hall, Chiselhurst, near London. During the Graeco-Turkish War of 1921-22, she, living in Smyrna with her papa, was kept under surveillance by the Greeks, who believed her to be a spy. When, in the summer of 1922, the Turks drove the Greeks into the sea and triumphantly entered Smyrna, Latife Hanoum, at the head of a group of Turkish maidens, first saw the manly form of "Ghazi" Mustafa Kemal Pasha, then about 41 years of age, to whom she offered buns, coffee and shelter under...
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