Word: kemalized
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Magnesians, to whom a coffee house is the equivalent of a saloon (pious Mohammedans are total abstainers), wandered wistfully about the streets, gossipped loudly, cursed Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha under their breath...
...Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President and Dictator of Turkey, last month made known for the second time (TIME, Oct. 6; Nov. 24) that he must have an Opposition. Nothing drastic, of course, but the sort of genteel Opposition that used to make debates in the House of Commons so pleasant during the Victorian years when gentlemanly Whigs and gentlemanly Tories chased each other in and out of office. He gave orders that 30 Deputies of such an Opposition should be elected. Last week the new Parliament met, but Mustafa's Opposition was not even genteel; it was invisible...
...money to a Turkish village. Townsmen turned him over to the authorities. Next day Ismael Husseyin swung from the gallows he had once cheated, his blackened tongue impudently thrust at his captors. On his breast swung a placard: THUS ARE PUNISHED TRAITORS TO THE RE PUBLICAN REGIME OF KEMAL PASHA...
...this question, presented officially to the Turkish Government by U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, the answer last week was as emphatic as dervish-hanging. Consistently progressive Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the Ghazi, "The Victorious One," promptly padlocked the three narcotic factories at Istanbul (once Constantinople), ordered most sweeping reforms...
...sure the motion of censure was snowed under by 214 Kemalist votes, but on thinking the whole matter over Dictator Kemal must have wondered whether the idea of even a ten-deputy opposition was such a good one after all. In Turkey the will of the dictator is communicated by means wondrous, swift and silent. Those who cross it are sometimes found hanged to their own doorposts at dawn. Bright and early on the morn after the vote, Leader Fethi called upon "The Modernizer," informed him that overnight the opposition party had dissolved...