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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who profess to believe that the Balkan pot is about to boil over into active warfare were not surprised last week when the Chicago Herald-Examiner (Hearst) printed, exclusively, excerpts from "secret instructions sent from Kemals [Mustapha Kemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey] foreign office to the Turkish minister at Belgrade." This document was "intercepted by a secret agent of one of the Balkan powers." In it, Dictator Kemal outlines his country's moves in the event of a Balkan conflict, as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Secret Instructions | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...being too cut and dried, they do not wear well. The style contributes to this end, for in her obvious desire to be forceful, Fannie Hurst is led into grotesqueries, of which one example should suffice, though it does not explain. When the author refers to the Thanksgiving turkey as a "Mucilaginous miscellany of stuffed gobbler" one feels slightly out of one's depth. Which is about the way one feels about the whole book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Page of New Fiction | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...texture of law and politics that the only combative weapons left to their enemies are assassination and revolution. Both statesmen have successfully spurred their countrymen to strides and leaps in material progress. They are the fashion plates aped by all modern personal autocrats. Examples: President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey; Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski of Poland; Dictator General Carlos Ibanez of Chile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Who Rules the World? | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...statue, was the question that the Jewish Tribune put to its readers last Rosh Hashonah (TIME, Oct. 3). Last week came the decision-the late Oscar Solomon Straus (1850-1926), diplomat. He was the friend and aid of four U. S. Presidents. For Grover Cleveland he went to Turkey as U. S. Minister; at Constantinople he protected the U. S. mission schools & colleges. For William McKinley he again went to Turkey as Minister. William Howard Taft sent him there a third time, as Ambassador. Meanwhile he had served as Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce & Labor. President Roosevelt appointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Statuesque Jews | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...turkey for Thanksgiving," said Amy Garvey, "but if I can reflect on having my husband back, that will be much better than choice viands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Potentate Deported | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

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