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...World War found him an old man, supposedly retired from public life, but known all over France for his incessant warnings against the armed menace of Germany. France turned to him. As Premier and War Minister he hounded such spies as Bolo Pasha to death, championed Foch and rushed out to the fighting front every few days to see how things were going for himself. At that period he had one motto, one battle cry: "Je fais la guerre. Je fais la guerre. Je fais la guerre...
Little anxiety for the personal safety and comfort of former Sultan Mohammed VI of Turkey was felt in 1922, when eluding the Kemalists he fled from Constaninople aboard a British warship, and the Grand National Assembly of Turkey turned his realm into the republic of which Mustapha Kemal Pasha is now president...
...Assembly is expected to be convened within a month. It is regarded as certain that Reza Kahn will then be elected to head whatever form of government is determined upon. Conflicting rumors assert that he favors: 1) A republic patterned after that now headed in Turkey by Mustapha Kernel Pasha. 2) The installation of himself as "Shahinshah,"* with the full original implications of the title. Since Reza Kahn is an extremely adept politician, U.S. observers opined that he would find the office of President well suited to his talents if not to his vanity...
Next month Italian and Egyptian delegations will be taken on a yacht belonging to the Italian Navy to a point off the African coast opposite the Oasis of Jarabub. Gazing toward the Oasis from the shiny deck, the Marquis Negrotto Dicambiaso for Italy and Sidik Pasha for Egypt will determine the exact disposition to be made of the Oasis, and trace the future rectifications of the frontier between Egypt and Italian Tripoli...
...doubtful significance: 1) Tewfic Bey, Turkish Foreign Minister, and head of the Turkish League Delegation, left Geneva suddenly by the Orient Express for Angora, after declaring that dealings between his Government and Britain in the near future will be through the regular diplomatic channels. 2) From Angora, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President-Dictator of Turkey, was quoted as follows: "Our army is ready and its morale is excellent. If we should have to fight-which I don't think likely-we shall certainly not shirk the issue. . . . Mosul is Turkish . . . nothing can change that . . . we will never abandon that view...