Word: kemalist
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...present instance, besides risking a serious affront to all Christian nations operating non-sectarian schools within Turkish boundaries, the Assembly has been particularly careless of the toes of the French, whose prestige in the Near East has been great. When it is considered that the success of the Kemalist regime depends to a large extent upon the cooperation of other nations, particularly that of France, the expediency of this most recent display of religious enthusiasm is doubtful in the extreme...
...Hotel, Manhattan, James W. Gerard, former U. S. Ambassador to Germany, attacked the Treaty, contending that "Christian civilization was crucified at Lausanne and the Stars and Stripes were trailed in the mire in the interest of a group of oil speculators." He characterized the Turks as murderers and the Kemalist Government as a group of adventurers whose régime was on its last legs. His position received needed dignity from the support of Professor A. D. F. Hamlin of Columbia University and Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard, who wrote a letter saying that the Treaty was worthless...
...thus ridding themselves entirely of the offensive word "Greek." (TIME, May 12, July 9.) The Greek patriarchate of Constantinople has been a force since the days of Constantine, 312 A. D. It survived the capture of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453. Will it survive the attacks of the Kemalist Government...
...Caliph and has a large following in the Islamic world, particularly with regard to his claim to the Caliphate. According to Mohammedan law it is impossible for two Caliphs to exist at the same time. The ex-Sultan never gave up the Caliphate, but was forced out by the Kemalists. His partisans, therefore, charge the Kemalist movement with irreligious acts...
...carrying a doctor two hundred and fifty miles to an island in Lake Michigan to save a man's life. In Mesopotamia aeroplanes are being used systematically by the British for the collection of taxes. This last is perhaps not an evidence of progress, for it is reported on Kemalist authority that the good work has consisted in the bombing of villages to enforce payment and that five British machines have been brought down by the natives...