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Thousands of women and children deluded into peril by the White hope of General Wrangel, he succored. His was the first balm to heal the wounds of fire at Smyrna. Grimly he protected U. S. interests at Lusanne conferences. And last year he was the first diplomat to call on Mustafa Kemal, President of New Turkey...
...child she received her education first from an English governess; later, at Tudor Hall, Chiselhurst, near London. During the Graeco-Turkish War of 1921-22, she, living in Smyrna with her papa, was kept under surveillance by the Greeks, who believed her to be a spy. When, in the summer of 1922, the Turks drove the Greeks into the sea and triumphantly entered Smyrna, Latife Hanoum, at the head of a group of Turkish maidens, first saw the manly form of "Ghazi" Mustafa Kemal Pasha, then about 41 years of age, to whom she offered buns, coffee and shelter under...
...Smyrna, where she once more resided under her father's roof, a diligent reporter discovered her. Said she to him with many gestures...
...generally welcomed. Papa, pleased, did the "heavy" by arranging a marriage dowry of a million Turkish pounds (then about $650,000). The marriage took place on Jan. 29, 1923. Latife was in the kitchen, so the story goes, superintending a feast being prepared in honor of the recapture of Smyrna. About 50 guests were present. Mustafa Kemal Pasha asked to see his fiancee. He suggested to her that they marry forthwith, to which proposal the girl readily assented after but a moment of blushing hesitation. A mufti was called in and speedily performed the ceremony...
Traveling through Palestine and Syria, U. S. Senator William H. King of Utah at length entered Turkey, visited Konia, Smyrna, Angora, Constantinople. From the last place he began a tour of the Balkans, after many weeks arriving in Berlin where he visited his daughter, Mrs. Carl Fischer, wife of an able secretary in the U. S. Embassy there...