Word: kemalists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the U. S. Senate has refused to ratify the Lausanne Treaty (TIME, Jan. 31), Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, able U. S. High Commissioner to Turkey, busied himself at Angora last week and was reported to have signed an agreement with the Kemalist Government temporarily extending once more the commercial modus vivendi between Turkey and the U. S. which would otherwise have expired last week...
...Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople protested tn the Kemalist regime last week the arbitrary and unexplained closing by the Turkish police of a Baby Clinic, charitably financed by U. S. citizens including Admiral Bristol (TIME, Sept. 14) famed and able U. S. High Commissioner to Turkey. The Admiral, at whose lightest word Turks have learned to jump, was cruising in the Black Sea last week knew not that his Baby Clinic was menaced...
...Mosul Question" is, as everyone knows, the question of what is to be done with some 35,000 square miles of territory bounded by Turkey, Persia, the British protected Kingdom of Irak, and the French mandated region of Syria. The Kemalist Government of Turkey wants the territory as a matter of Pan-Islamic Nationalist policy; and Great Britain is equally determined that Mosul shall remain sufficiently dominated by Downing Street to keep open the Palestine-TransJordania-Irak route on India...
...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...