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...title which was abolished by Kamal Atatürk...
Dictator Kamâl Atatürk has made a point for years of groaning bitterly about the demilitarized Dardanelles at every crisis in international affairs. Meanwhile he has quietly lined the Straits with solid highways interspersed with concrete "parking spaces" behind earth embankments. Down these roads could roll at a few hours notice heavy tractor field-pieces, to unlimber at the parking spaces and command the Straits. With all this in his favor, Kamâl Atatürk last fortnight felt he could afford to wangle a remilitarized Dardanelles the legal...
Last week the British Foreign Office with record rapidity posted a reply to Dictator Kamâl Atatürk assuring him of a treaty-revising conference "without delay." Soviet Russia hastened to assure Turkey of its backing. Though the Italian Foreign Office kept mum, Italian officials privately protested that "a situation would be created equally serious as Germany's violation of the Locarno Pact." Except from Italy's point of view, this was hardly true. The original peace treaty with Turkey was the ignominious Treaty of Sévres which stripped Turkey and partitioned it into French...
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...
...young men about to start a new business. They wanted him to buy some of their stock at $25 the share. Looking down his straight strong nose, Banker Forgan declared he could buy no stock. Said he: "I'm just a poor mon and I wor-rk for a sollery...