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Once accustomed to writhe at the sickening servility of their Sultans to the Great Powers, Turks were prouder than ever last week of their swart, hard Dictator Gazi ("Victorious One"), Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
...British Admiralty has long suspected that, in violation of post-War agreements, Dictator Kemal is now secretly fortifying the Dardanelles and certain strategic points on the Turkish coast from which all visitors are barred. Of late several ships of the Royal Navy have been lazing near Samos, a Greek island two miles off Turkey. One boiling hot afternoon last week three British officers from the big cruiser H. M. S. Devonshire shoved off in a ship's boat for what Britons afterwards called "a sail and a swim." Their pleasure took them within wading distance of Turkey...
...draw Dictator Kemal's attention the British Ambassador at Istanbul. Sir Percy Lyham Loraine, Bart., took a sleeping car for Ankara, the new Turkish capital which Dictator Kemal has built among high hills far beyond the range of battleships firing from the coast. On his chosen ground Gazi talked Young Turkey to Sir Percy. The action of the Turkish coast guards, he declared, was fully justified...
Soon two British battleships, three cruisers and seven destroyers were looking for the corpse of Surgeon Lieut. Robinson. When it could not be found, Dictator Kemal offered to send a Turkish battleship to throw a wreath into the sea while a British chaplain read the funeral service, "thereafter the incident to be considered closed." This offer His Majesty's Government accepted, breathed not a word about demanding either an indemnity or an apology from Kemal's Turkey...
Among 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...