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Peace? The veil has been lifted and Mustapha Kemal Pasha speaks for the Turkish nation: " We desire peace! " This is a propitious omen for the future of the new Turkish State, and, backed by real sincerity, it will indubitably raise the prestige of Turkey in the West. It is certainly a feather in the fezzes of Mustapha Kemal Pasha and Ismet Pasha, his Foreign Minister...
Refusal. The National Assembly rejected the Lausanne Treaty because it was contrary to the National Pact. The greater part of the Treaty has, however, been approved, and it only remains now to reach an agreement on a few important points. Ismet Pasha has been given full power to continue the postponed Lausanne Conference and it is certain that the Allies will readily consent to reopening the discussion...
Mustapha Kemal Pasha, returned to Angora from his long political campaign in the country districts, is now about to devote himself to the difficulties of swaying the National Assembly to his will. Although Mustapha is regarded as the savior of his country, at Angora there are many who seek his political downfall. He had this in view, no doubt, when in addressing the Assembly he said: " The coming year may just as well be one of war as one of peace...
...Brusa, Mustapha Kemal Pasha gave a party to celebrate his marriage. The guests assembled in a well-known French hotel celebrated for its wines; but there was nothing to drink-not until the proprietor discreetly mentioned to Kemal that the cellar was full. " Bring us up some of the best," said the host. " But, Sir, our cellar has been sealed by the gendarmes." " Ah! " said Mustapha, " tell them to unseal...
...Intoxicants, games of chance and stones set up are the devil's work," says the Koran. But Kemal Pasha declares, "No nation can progress without art." And since the Koran was revealed to Mahomet, as Kemal explained in his announcement last week, at a time when the chief works of sculpture were idols, its prohibition of images need no longer apply...