Word: kamal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortifications. After the War a defeated and prostrate Turkey watched the destruction of its forts by the victors. In 1923 the Treaty of Lausanne decreed that the famed Straits should be open to all ships, should never again be fortified by Turkey. Last fortnight Turkey's President Mustafa Kamal ("Grey Wolf") Ataturk moved to scrap the Treaty of Lausanne, refortify the strategic Dardanelles...
...sort of little story Russians are always telling about Stalin, Germans about Hitler and Turks about Kamal Ataturk-a story which might be true and strikes the tellers as supremely characteristic-was being murmured over London teacups last week about God-fearing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Englishmen make a great thing of initials in their speech and the "P. M." (Prime Minister) was said to have been going over with the Cabinet the speech he subsequently made in the House of Commons upon the accession of King Edward VIII. Afterward Mr. Baldwin's secretary gathered up the manuscript...
...until it seemed that he had indeed consumed the moon. Then a little sliver of moon swung into sight. The peasants redoubled their firing. The dragon yielded up still more moon. At 10:21 the moon once more rode high and bright over Islam. The peasants, on whom Dictator Kamal Ataturk has forced such civilized behavior as wearing derbies and unveiling their women, felt better...
...Europe's perennial Men of the Years, Stanley Baldwin, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Kamal Ataturk and Dr. Eduard Benes held undiminished sway. The outstanding exhibition of the century in French political tight-rope walking was given in 1935 but as the year entered its last hours the fate of Premier Pierre Laval, 1931'S Man of the Year, continued to tiptoe (see p. 18). In Asia practical control of North China was obtained by Japan in 1935 so adroitly and inconspicuously that it was a major Japanese triumph to have avoided producing...
Died. Zehra Meheemen, 20, adopted daughter of Turkey's President Kamal Ataturk; of a fractured skull received when she jumped or fell from the Calais-Paris Express; near Amiens, France...