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...sense of humor is one faculty not generally included in the list of amiable qualities that form the make-up of the Turk, but for once he has played his reputation false. The Nationalist leader, Mustafa Kemal has as his representative at the present conference at Lausanne, the general Ishmet Pasha. Now Ishmet's great usefulness lies not so much in the distinction of his services,--though they have been many and great, Allah is witness! for he is a trained diplomat and his recent victories over the Greeks in a military way are credited to strategy of the highest...
...they go even further and demand that foreign nations give up the Capitulations. These are the courts run by the consulates for foreigners living in Turkey. The Turks want these done away with and foreigners tried wholly in Turkish courts and under Turkish law. The Koran is the sole Turkish law authority, and anything that is not accounted for in it is not a case for courts. A pistol murder, for example, cannot come up in court because Allah, when he dictated the Koran, forgot to speak of pistols. In addition, a Moslem can kill, assault, rob, and injure...
...sure, an inspiration comes to two separate men simultaneously. But this time the honor remains with America, the first country to make public the idea. We may expect much good to come of it. Every novelty helps which detracts the mind from the wicked, designing atrocities of the Turk or the bomb-plotting anarchist. Then, if considerable progress is made on this new line, the world may witness a universal "back to the country" movement. The interest in astronomy and interplanetary transportation will surely increase by leaps and bounds. Such is the train of progress started by one noble conception...
...events, whether the Sick Man returns to Europe or not, the situation indicates for the future that more care must be used in any attempt to adjust a strait-jacket to the Terrible Turk...
This in brief is the situation which causes War and rumors of more War to fill the daily papers. The opiate, the unsigned Treaty of Sevres which was intended to mark the end of the Turk in Europe,--has been treated most irregularly by Mustapha Kemal Pasha, who from all indications is doing his best to re-carve the boundaries of the Near East to suit his Angora. In the meantime the strong-arm squad,--the Greeks under a recently recrowned and still more recently un-crowned Constantine,--undertook to enforce the provisions of the treaty, feeling the inheritance...