Word: rk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magnificent antique tapestry depicting Emperor Charles V driving the Turkish barbarians in confusion from Vienna in the year 1529. When through his thick-lensed spectacles Dr. Aras at last saw this he raised a shrill rumpus and the League, as a conciliatory gesture to Dictator Mustafa Kamal Atatürk, hastily removed the tapestry...
...politeness and outdoing even French diplomacy when it comes to haggling around a green table are the statesmen of Turkey, first of countries downed in the War to arise under a Dictator. Last week with exquisite politeness Dictator President El Ghazi ("The Victorious One") Kamâl Atatürk ("Father of the Turks'') called at Montreux, Switzerland a conference at which the Great Powers could agree to his tearing up the Treaty of Lausanne, under which Turkey is forbidden to fortify the Dardanelles. This the Great Powers were delighted to do last week. They were most grateful...
...Montreux "until after sanctions are lifted." Last week the Italian Press, pointing out that Italian commercial tonnage is the heaviest through the straits, declared that obviously no solution at Montreux not approved by Italy could stand. At this the Turkish Press of Dictator Kamâl Atatürk exclaimed what a good thing it had been last week to adjourn the Montreux Conference. Correspondents predicted that on meeting again it will probably end, after a free-for-all, in a stalemate, with Dictator Kamâl Atatürk in any case maintaining Turkey's iron grip...
...title which was abolished by Kamal Atatürk...
Able Dictator Kamâl Atatürk is well aware that he needs Britain's support before proceeding to fortify the Dardanelles. Last November he promised Britain Turkey's mutual assistance in case Italy should go on the rampage in the Mediterranean. Last week, the day after he received the British note promising a conference, Europe was astonished by a report that Turkey had already sent soldiers into the demilitarized zones. The British Foreign Office cautiously registered "disbelief." British newspapers were unexcited. The false rumor had been as effective as if it had been an official trial...