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...this question, presented officially to the Turkish Government by U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, the answer last week was as emphatic as dervish-hanging. Consistently progressive Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the Ghazi, "The Victorious One," promptly padlocked the three narcotic factories at Istanbul (once Constantinople), ordered most sweeping reforms...
...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...
...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 Palace...
...that Angora in August is still humanly habitable. President Mustafa Kemal Pasha announced, last week, that he would cancel his usual trip to cool Constantinople, stay in Angora through the summer. Constantinopolitans were relieved. Last year Constantinople spent some $100,000 stringing lights, building triumphal arches to honor the Ghazi on his Bosporus vacation...
Rushing in his car toward Angora the Ghazi saw that it was true. Jutting high above a dusty plain is the ruined citadel of Angora. The "Fish Bazaar," the old section of the town, known to modern Turks as the pest section, straggles down from the summit of the rock to the bleak modern city at its base. Up the rock now, as the Ghazi gazed, leaped crackling flames, lighting up the plain. For hours the Ghazi worked shoulder to shoulder with firemen, policemen, soldiers. The acrid smoke of burning buildings mingled with the smell of burning fish. By morning...