Word: kemalized
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...Egypt boiled with indignation last week at a Turkish insult to the fez, favorite headgear of Egypt's fat King Fuad. Years ago Turks abandoned the fez, the veil, the Arabic alphabet and polygamy by command of their progressive dictator, President Mustafa Kemal Pasha. It was Kemal himself, according to irate Cairo newspapers last week, who insulted the fez on Turkey's Independence Day at a banquet tendered by the President at Angora to the diplomatic corps...
...Defender Kemal...
After waiting for long I have at last found a weak spot. You were not at all clear in regard to the Turkish gentleman by the name of Kemal. On p. 19, June 13, under Turkey, you speak of Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha and in the next paragraph you speak of Divisional Commander Kemal without explaining that you were talking about two men, each with the name Kemal...
...table was a medium-sized, modest man of cheerful, friendly and unassuming manner who did not use tobacco. We talked through an interpreter who sat at his side. I was very much interested to learn that this very modest gentleman with whom I was talking was General Kemal, the defender of the region which included Constantinople during the Great War. General Kemal the defender, when introduced, explained that while his name was Kemal and spelled exactly as Dictator Kemal spells his, there was no relationship. I doubt if your readers realized by reading your article that you were talking about...
...Subscriber Wonders henceforth beware of the exceedingly modest, middle-sized man who sat across from him at a Scottish Rite Lodge of Masons' banquet in Constantinople (now Istanbul). There is only one "General Kemal the defender of the region which included Constantinople during the Great War" and he is today the Dictator of Turkey, Mustapha Kemal Pasha...