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...lady from Tiffin, Ohio and 299 other feminists from 30 countries appeared triumphant last week in the Royal Yildiz Harem of Abdul Hamid "The Damned" (deposed 1909, died 1918). "As President of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship." crisply observed Britain's Margery Corbett Ashby, "I think we can all feel that 1934 was a notable year. In 1934 the women of Brazil and the women of Turkey were accorded the vote and equal status with...
...have these triumphs celebrated in Yildiz, for centuries the most glamorous and sinister harem in the Ottoman Empire, was the neat idea of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ("Chief Turk"), the progressive Dictator who put Turkish men in derby hats...
Last week incorrigible male correspondents distressed the feminists on whom they were reporting by turning up a precise account of what harem life in Yildiz was actually like under Abdul Hamid, written by Philadelphia-born Princess Djavidan Hanum* who married Khedive Abbas Hilmi II and knew Turkish royal harems as few non-Turks ever have...
...Abdul Hamid became more & more a prey to his fears." related Philadelphia's harem Princess. "The Sultan kept a revolver in his hand by night and by day. . . . He shot his own child when the little one lifted a revolver that lay on the table. The playful hand might be the instrument of a woman's revenge and the Sultan knew better than anyone else that no tool is too weak to inflict a death wound. . . . This fear, this perpetual watchfulness, required that the concubines must be changed from night to night, so that his very pleasures were...
...entrance of the harem he was welcomed by the Sultan's mother. Then he passed slowly between bejeweled rows of women, a man who cared little for the revelation of women's beauty. . . . His impenetrable majesty forbade any redeeming contact...