Word: kamal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper last week printed the following story about Franklin Roosevelt. In 1937 the President was so impressed by a cinema short on the late Kamal Ataturk's new Turkey that he dashed off a glowing letter to Kamal Ataturk, noted in passing that he hoped to meet him some day. Astounded Ataturk took this passing note very seriously, had his press print the praises of "revolutionary" Franklin Roosevelt, instructed his minister in Washington to ask the mystified State Department just when the President of the U. S. would arrive...
...before Russian troops invaded Poland, the trip grew in importance as the week advanced, as the significance of joint Russian-German aggression swept over the frightened Balkans. A 55-year-old lawyer, nervous, clever, quick-witted Shokru Saracoglu be gan his public life at 40, when Turkey's Kamal Atatürk was consolidating, his power, when Russia on the north was far from strong. A lusty, exuberant Moslem (married, with two children) Shokru Saracoglu has gone through many reputations in Balkan and Western eyes: once people spoke of his freshness and enthusiasm; once people said he had grown...
...from Führer Hitler's book and even improving on his methods, the Turks first asked for (and got) minority rights for their nationals in Hatay, next autonomy for the region, next "independence," with Turkish and French troops jointly "keeping order." At one time the late President Kamal Atatürk backed up his demands by massing troops along the Syrian border. At another time a League of Nations plebiscite was to be held in the district, but when most of the non-Turks banded together and it became obvious that the Turks could not win, the obliging...
...World War Great Britain and Turkey fought each other bitterly in Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia and at Gallipoli. Badly defeated, their country saved from dismemberment only by the vigorous leadership of the late Kamal Atatürk, the Turks came through the War with a profound distrust of German alliances. They quickly made friends with Russia, traditional enemy of the Turkish Sultanate, and moved continually toward greater friendship with Britain...
...Farouk, not yet 19, have long nursed an ambition to have their monarch designated Caliph of all Islam, spiritual head of all Moslems. That job has been vacant since 1924 when the last Caliph, Turkey's Abdul Medjid II, was booted out by Turkey's late Dictator Kamal Ataturk. Carefully schooled, sporty King Farouk has frequently taken time off from golf and duck shooting (see cut) to attend" Cairo's mosques in an effort to convince the Moslem world of his fitness for the Caliphate...