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...Although Mustapha Kemal Pasha has encountered several serious obstacles in his campaign for the modernization of Turkey, he ean count at least one success to his credit. Some of the decisions of the Angora government have seemed impolitic to outsiders, and in his determination to interfere with the foreign schools in Constantinople the Pasha was hardly diplomatic; but the recently discovered tolerance of the average Turkish citizen toward the moving pictures indicates that Occidentalism is growing faster than the world has been led to suspect. Whether this latest development is due to the efforts of Kemal, of whether...
After two years of guerilla warfare, Mustapha Kemal Pasha and his lieutenant, Ismet Pasha, drove the Greeks into the sea at Smyrna after a thunderbolt campaign in August, 1922. British troops at Chanak, on the Dardanelles and on the Ismid Peninsula, covering Constantinople, were faced by a threatening concentration of victorious Turkish troops. Lloyd George, genius of the Greek policy in Asia Minor and bitterest foe of the Turk in Europe, called on the Dominions to rally to the defense of the Straits and on the Balkan Nations to join in an anti-Turk crusade. The British public decided that...
...Mustapha went on to explain that Turkey had become overridden with special privileges granted to religionists-patriarchs, archbishops, missionaries, etc., and that it now intended to abolish all religious prerogatives in temporal offices. The Calif was no exception...
...Turkey, Mustapha Kemal Pasha last week announced that the Califate henceforth will be personified by the Turkish Parliament. London opinion" promptly accused Kemal of "desiring to set himself up as Sultan of the world's 220,000,000 Moslems...
...compass of 234 pages Mr. Price follows the career of Mustapha Kernel Pasha, first President of the Republic of Turkey, gives the Turkish angle of the War and presents some rather acrimonious comment on Christianity in the Land of Islam. So far so good. The author goes farther afield and animadverts upon "Germany in Islam," British policy toward Turkey, Russia and Turkey. In particular does he berate the Anglo-Russian treaty of 1907 which paved the way for completion of the Triple Entente by King Edward VII with the Tsar of Russia at Reval in 1908. Although much that...