Word: sultanate
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...these days of street cars and automobiles there is little indeed to connect Boston with the City of the Faithful-- Bagdad. Nonetheless the spirit of the Arabian Nights is with us still, Who does not recall how the Sultan, Harounel- Rashid accompanied by his trusty Vizier was wont to slip out of the palace gates by night and wander over the city, seeing how matters fared with the people. Or how, on the morrow, from his high throne he meted out reward and punishment to those whom he had found meritorious or wanting on the night before. Thus was justice...
...France--the traditional friend of the Turk--misses the privileges granted to her financiers by the old Turkish government, and is jealous of British influence in the Near East, particularly at Constantinople. The recovery of Turkish territory lost in Thrace and Asia Minor is the aim of both the Sultan's government on the Bosphorus and the Nationalists of Angora, who are capable of initiating no little trouble in the regions under Allied mandate. The pressure toward readjustment is strong: the future career of the French premier may depend much upon his obtaining the desired end with a minimum...
...Satni" at the Wilbur an amateur theatrical which it is a privilege and a joy to watch. It is a true privilege and a joy to watch. It is a true privilege, too, for until this year Vincent shows have been more strictly taboo for men than any Sultan's harem; it is to be hoped that the ban, once lifted, will not be reimposed...
...dignified policy. We want Americans to feel that they have about them the protecting arm of the United States. We read quite often now of Americans carried away and held for ransom and sometimes we think of the experience of another president years ago. When a North African sultan carried off an American citizen and declared that he wanted ransom, the answer was "We want--alive or the sultan dead." And in a very short time we had--alive. There is nothing more likely to breed trouble than the policy which waits while things go on from worse to worse...
Even if the contrary were true, it might furnish a motive for retaining the Sultan as a nominal religious head; but it would give not the faintest pretext for bolstering up his secular power. It is a great pity that the United States, by its rejection of the League, is in no position to take any active part in concert with the other powers, toward solving the problem of the Near East. But our people, in company with the nations of Europe, have not been slow to voice their protest against the decision of the allied governments. For over...