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President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, national hero and onetime supreme commander of the revolutionary armies which swept away the Sultanate, set foot in Constantinople last week, for the first time since the Turkish Capital was officially moved thence to Angora...
...greet Kemal all Constantinople was en fete. Fifty thousand electric bulbs were festooned along the streets and from the minarets of Stamboul.* Even at Pera† the Diplomatic Corps and foreigners generally decked their establishments, in honor of Kemal. He came, at last, steaming up the Bosporus on a cream white yacht, once the Sultan's. Twelve large and forty small steamers followed. Turkish gunboats blazed salutes. The whole city rang with Kemal's nickname of honor: "Ghazi," "The Victorious...
When the Young Turk Party seized the Government (1922) and (1923) transferred the Turkish Capital to Angora in Asia Minor, out of range of Allied warships, Admiral Bristol immediately sensed that the new regime of President-Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha was healthy, and, in any case, unshakable. While the U. S. Department of State was beginning to wonder whether it would recognize the Young Turk Government, Admiral Bristol strode into the office of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, and two fighting men shook hands (1924). Up to that time no Allied representative had called on Kemal. Soon or late, all took...
...President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, the Ghazi ("The Victorious"), satisfied his relatively simple wants by decreeing that his private train shall be made up primarily of an ordinary engine and cars; but shall have attached at the end a $36,000 "Presidential Car" which was completed for delivery by the German firm of Wegmann last week. It contains, at the forward end, an electric kitchen; then a dining-room for 14 persons; next, the President's bedroom and bath with a marble tub; adjoining this a smoking-room in green and gold, decorated with Bosporous landscape murals; finally...
...Train. If President Kemal's car is a luxury, the train just finished by the Pullman Co. of Chicago for President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico requires the invention of new superlatives...