Word: moukhtar
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...Excellency Ahmed Moukhtar Bey, first Ambassador of the Turkish Republic to the U. S., arrived in Washington last week and called on Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg...
...Secretary, hospitable, had already put his guest at ease by spiking the recent statement attacking Moukhtar Bey which was made by James Watson Gerard, onetime (1913-17) U. S. Ambassador to Germany (TIME...
...mere presence in Washington of so suave and polished a statesman as Ambassador Moukhtar Bey could constitute an "insult" was explained by Mr. Gerard on the grounds that Moukhtar Bey took part during 1919 in negotiations between the Turkish and Soviet Governments, which were followed by Armenian massacres and the partition of Armenia between Russia and Turkey, at a time, declared Mr. Gerard, when "the Armenian Republic was recognized by the allied and associated nations, including the United States...
...frontier, inclosing part of Armenia was recognized by the Lausanne treaty, which the U. S. Senate has refused to ratify (TIME, Jan. 31). Therefore onetime Statesman Gerard, now chairman of the American Committee Opposed to the Lausanne treaty, was only performing his chosen duty, last week, when he flayed Moukhtar Bey-but Mr. Gerard chose also to rebuke the U. S. State Department...
Irate, he broadly hinted that the Department acted "unconstitutionally" when it negotiated the modus vivendi (TIME, March 7) on the basis of which the U. S. has already sent to Turkey that alert and statesmanly "career diplomat," Ambassador Joseph C. Grew. Since the appointments of Ambassadors Grew and Moukhtar Bey have been an accomplished fact for months, some observers thought it churlish of Mr. Gerard to wait until the Turkish Ambassador was actually en route, last week, before delivering himself as follows: "The Senate will soon have an opportunity to express itself upon the so-called modus vivendi...