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First to feel the prickle of a noose was Dr. Nazim Pasha, founder of the Young Turk movement which overthrew "Abdul the Damned" (Abd-ul-Hamid II) in 1909, and dictated the government of Turkey as a Pan-Islamic oligarchy throughout the World...
Nail Bey, once Secretary of the Young Turk (executive) committee of Union and Progress, sauntered beneath his gallows, remarked, "This is the first time I have ever found myself in such a situation!" was snapped off into eternity as he laughed at his own jest. Last came the revered and eminent Djavid Bey, onetime Minister of Finance, his pince-nez exactly adjusted. By nature dignified, he did not jest at Death. As the noose tightened there rolled sonorously from his lips a verse from the Koran...
Paradoxically Dictator-President Kemal rose to fame and power as a general in the Young Turk armies, a subordinate of the men hanged by his orders last week. Not until General Kemal Pasha proved himself the ablest Turkish World War commander was he able to rally a Turkish Nationalist following from within the Young Turk movement and to organize this clique into the present Kemal-dominated Turkish dictature...
...Young Turk Old Guard have never sympathized with President Kemal's dictatorial Europeanization of Turkey, have fought him tooth and nail by stealth. He, ruthless, has meted out no more and no less severe punishment to his enemies than they inflicted upon theirs in the days of Young Turk supremacy. President Kemal, though "Europeanized," has still the attributes of the "typical terrible Turk...
...Nice Turk. Last spring P. E. Bishop Manning of New York and many another bishop became indignant with memories of the "Unspeakable Turk" and his Armenian and Greek massacres. Some $80,000,000 in missionary investments had become futile; Christianity could not be taught in Turkey. They asked Senator Borah to oppose the U. S. signing the Lausanne Treaty with Turkey. He refused (TIME, April...