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...would be nice if Turkey were a republic"-thus wistfully thinks President Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
...should lead the new Opposition party? His Excellency Ali Fethi Bey. appointed by Kemal Turkish Ambassador at Paris, was recalled. With dazzling celerity a by-election was arranged last week at Smyrna to elect Fethi to Parliament. By order of Prime Minister Ismet Pasha, who was going to be ousted by the coming "crisis." Smyrna police used whips on the rabble to make them turn out at the polls. They could vote, the police told them, either for an obscure and locally unpopular candidate offered by Dictator Kemal's own "Peoples' Republican Party" or for the eminent...
...this point, with the Opposition created, all seemed ripe for the crisis, but canny Fethi Bey decided to play super-safe. Not wishing to wake up some morning on a gibbet by mistake, the Leader of the Opposition harangued Parliament, proposed that the Deputies elect Mustafa Kemal Pasha-"our Glorious Ghazi, our Victorious One"-to be president of Turkey for life. (His second four-year term expires...
Immediately Opposition Leader Fethi Bey opened fiery attack on Prime Minister Ismet Pasha who, though of course retaining a majority in Parliament, at once resigned. There was talk that Fethi would be made Prime Minister-but the Victorious One did not rush to this extreme. Having heard that in real republics, during a real crisis the President "sends for and consults the leaders of the Opposition," Kemal sent for and consulted Fethi. Next day short, hard-eyed General Ismet, who must have spent a nervous night wondering whether the Glorious Ghazi intended to doublecross him, was summoned to the Presidential...
General Salikh Pasha of Turkey, with horse, foot and artillery marched over the Persian frontier last week to surround the rebel Kurdish tribesmen who for the past two months have been holding out on the slopes of Mount Ararat against some 30,000 well-equipped Turkish troops (TIME, July 28). Persia protested the invasion formally, did nothing to stop...