Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following countries had established normal diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union up to Jan 1, 1926: Afghanistan, Arabia, Austria, China, Danzig, Denmark, Esthonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania. Mexico, Mongolia, Norway, Persia, Poland, Sweden, Turkey. Czechoslovakia has established trade relations...
...Senator William E. Borah as chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations came a protest last week from 110 Protestant Episcopal Bishops of the U.S. against the U.S. ratification of the Lausanne Treaty with Turkey. The bishops, headed by Bishop William T. Manning of Manhattan, would have no relations whatsoever with "an avowedly unrepentant and anti-Christian government which destroyed a million inoffensive Christian men, women and children," and still holds "in Turkish harems thousands of Christian women and children." Certain routine Turkish atrocities were detailed...
Promptly, suavely Senator Borah answered, telling the bishops in effect to mind their business:. "They [U. S. business, educational and religious interests in Turkey] combine in asking that the treaty be ratified. They feel it necessary for their protection. . . . The leading powers have all concluded, treaties with Turkey. ... To refuse friendly relations with all peoples who reject Christianity is not only unthinkable as a practical course for the Government to pursue, but I had always supposed that the great object of Christianity in international affairs was to establish friendly relations, not only with other Christian nations, but with the anti...
...some half billion dollars were spent in Europe by U. S. tourists, who traveled solitary or under the auspices of travel agencies such as Thomas Cook & Son. What was spent by the thousands who toured similarly to Asiatic countries, to the Mediterranean shore lands, the Holy Land, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, it is difficult to estimate. Almost as much, probably...
...make no more than a guess on this subject, I should say that, in the first place, the Italians are trying to dominate South American ports and commerce in much the same way that the Germans did before the war. Then I think they have their eyes fixed on Turkey, whose bones they would undoubtedly like to pick. If further trouble comes up between the nations of Western Europe and Turkey, the League will be very likely to call on Italy as its only fighting member. Although there would be French and Russian opposition to any Italian encroachments...