Word: turk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wily Turk, "nobody's moron" as he has been called, manipulated the claims of France and England at the last Lauzanne conference so as to bring those two governments upon the verge of a diplomatic break. Even the efforts of Ambassador Child as a neutral observer could not avert the deadlock which resulted. And as the second conference opens the Turk believes he has made his own position even more secure by tossing a bone in the form of the Chester concessions to the United States...
Mustapha Kemal Pasha has disproved the adage, "Where is a Turk his own master?" by substituting the answer, "In Turkey! " for the usual retort, "In hell." These words sum up the fundamental characteristics of Kemal's policy. He stands today as the Emancipator of Turkey. He has lifted the people out of the slough of servile submission to alien authority, brought them to a realization of their inherent qualities and to an independence of thought and action...
Kemal has stepped from the crucible of conflicting calumnies with an unstained reputation. Some of these wild reports charged him with being anything from a traitor to his country to being a "foreigner." Kemal is pure Turk (not, as some have said, a Jew) and has proved to the whole world that he is the core of Modern Turkey. He is a fine type of professional soldier, who has earned his laurels by sticking to his calling. Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, in his admirably written book, The Western Question in Greece and Turkey, says of him: "He proved...
...Turk Terms. All the Allied Governments have now received the full text of the counterproposals to the Lausanne Treaty, forwarded by the Angora Government last week...
There has been much during the last three years to strain relations between these two governments. When the Turks, fired by a new nationalism, began to sweep into Europe, the British were very surprised to see the French Government withdrawing its troops from the joint guard, leaving English troops alone at Chanak. But this slight misunderstanding was dispelled when France and England together forced the Turk to accept the terms of the armistice at Mudania. They were acting again in harmony at Lauzanne, with peace apparently in sight, when the conference suddenly came to a dead stop and the delegates...