Word: turkeys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unforeseen crisis which might develop about the Locarno Treaties or some similar agreement. . . . In accepting the decision of the League Council, we are simply continuing our present regime for 25 years or until Irak enters the League, which may well take place before that time. . . . In any case, if Turkey should attempt to seize the Mosul region of Irak, she would have to reckon not alone with England but with the League, whose decision she would thus have flouted. . . . The British taxpayer does not stand upon the brink of an enterprise likely to lead to great expense...
...Leviathan docked at Manhattan last week, pressmen surged up the gangplank and surrounded Mr. Henry Morgenthau Jr., son of the famed War-time U. S. Ambassador to Turkey. With pencils poised they requested intimate news of Henry Morgenthau Sr., now circling the globe and known to be somewhere in the Near East. Would young Mr. Morgenthau vouchsafe a few words anent his distinguished parent? Speedily the pencils began to race as Morgenthau Jr. spoke...
...Paris, M. Georg Tchitcherin and Tewfic Rushdi Bey, respectively the Foreign Ministers of Soviet Russia and Turkey, signed a three-year mutual guarantee compact in three articles and with three attached protocols...
...Britain to conclude a commercial treaty between Irak and Turkey, allowing Turkey to use the trans-Irak trade routes...
...Significance. Well informed observers opined that, while there is a bare chance of war, Turkey will in all probability be given sufficient commercial inducements to keep her quiet...