Word: ghazi
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...threatened to break faith, in imitation of Adolf Hitler. Austria, limited to 30,000 troops by the Treaty of St. Germain, plus 8,000 allowed after the assassination of Dollfuss, sought 100,000 as "absolutely essential." Turkey's pugnacious Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ("Father of the Turks") and Ghazi ("Victorious One"), is suspected of having already fortified the Dardanelles contrary to treaty, hinted that Turkey would now do so openly...
Died. The Emir Ali, 64, onetime King of Hejaz, brother of the late King Feisal of Iraq and the Emir Abdullah of Trans-jordania; after long illness; in the Bagdad palace of his nephew, King Ghazi of Irak...
...western mores sponsored by Dictator Kemal Pasha is poker. During the visit to Ankara last month of Persia's King of Kings (TIME, July 2) they sat up over the cards, Turks learned last week, until two hours before breakfast. "I may say that the winnings of our Ghazi ["The Victorious One" ] were large,'' confided a discreet Turkish official, ''but, as is his invariable custom, he refused to keep his gambling gains...
...every Turkish city and major town the dawn came up one day last week with the earth-shaking thunder of a 100-gun artillery salute. Three days and nights of sleepless rejoicing, songs, dancing in the streets and every sort of Turkish whoopee began by express order of the Ghazi Mustafa Kemal, blond "Victorious Mustafa the Excellent...
...Ghazi leads...