Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While we have been making up our minds about President Harding's proposal, 14 other peoples have been using the Court. In four years, Albania, the British Empire, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Poland, the Serb-Croat-Slovene States, and Turkey, have had their representatives arguing before the Court. Many other states have made treaties agreeing to use it. So the situation is not that the rest of the world is hanging breathless on what the United States may do. If in previous periods the world has looked to us to set the example, that...
...Court of International Justice at The Hague handed down a decision to the effect that the Council of the League of Nations has authority to determine the final disposition of the Vilayet of Mosul, and that the disposition of the Council shall be binding upon the chiefly interested Powers, Turkey and Britain...
...Mosul Question" is, as everyone knows, the question of what is to be done with some 35,000 square miles of territory bounded by Turkey, Persia, the British protected Kingdom of Irak, and the French mandated region of Syria. The Kemalist Government of Turkey wants the territory as a matter of Pan-Islamic Nationalist policy; and Great Britain is equally determined that Mosul shall remain sufficiently dominated by Downing Street to keep open the Palestine-TransJordania-Irak route on India...
...frequently as that of Santa Claus. Nathan is the passionate philanthropist. No sooner does he make a nickel (Abraham & Straus, R. H. Macy, emporia) than he gives away six cents. (Since 1915 his donations have exceeded his income.) Oscar Solomon is the zestful statesman (Rooseveltian Moose, Taft Ambassador to Turkey...
...territories. In our discussion we have agreed to hasten the delimitation of frontiers be tween Syria on the one hand and the British mandated territories of Palestine and Irak on the other. I also hope to go to Angora at an early date to settle the Syrian boundaries with Turkey. . . . My policy is to work with the League of Nations and to bring to Syria full independence at the soonest possible moment...