Word: moukbil
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...talking of the Americans, M. Moukbil said that while his people did not have perhaps as much understanding of us as of the French, they had great confidence and trust in us, "For," he said, "you have never been a colonizing nation...
...French," continued M. Moukbil, "we like them very much; we are more of the same temperament and I think they understand us better--but even they, of course, are not entirely non-imperialistic...
Explaining the recent expulsion of the Greek patriarch from Turkey, M. Moukbil said that the patriarch was used by the Greeks not only as a spy but also as an active agent. M. Moukbil stated that, contrary to the common supposition, this patriarch was not a Turkish subject, saying that he was born in Greece and that he did not come into Turkey until after fifteen years...
...Turkey entered the war on the side of Germany," said M. Moukbil, "in order to protect herself against the aggressions of a Russo-Franco-British entente which was planning to take Constantinople and the coasts of the Black Sea to give to Imperial Russia. This is substantiated by documents from the Russian archives recently made public by the Soviet Government...
Explaining the feelings of the Turks in regard to England. France, and the United States, M. Moukbil said that while his people liked and admired the individual English gentleman, they had a profound distrust and dislike of the English imperialistic foreign policy...