Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign Relations. Can Mr. Borah cenceivably be right in demanding U. S. recognition of Russia? Is Admiral Bristol showing his usual good sense in asking that Turkey be recognized? Does China deserve generosity and moral support? Will Mexico play fair...
Mosul. Straightway the Council plunged into the consideration of one of the most delicate questions before it-the disposition of Mosul. Britain and Turkey were the disputants. Although Turkey is not a member of the League she agreed with Britain to abide by the Council's decision whether Turkey it to own or Britain to have a mandate over Mosul...
...Calif is spiritual head of the Moslem world, has usually exercised supreme temporal power. In recent centuries the Calif has been Sultan of Turkey. In 1923, Kemal Pasha deposed the Sultan-Calif Mohammed VI, abolished the office of Sultan, made himself President of the Turkish Republic, elected one Abdul Medjid Effendi as Calif. Then, a few months later, Kemal exiled his Calif and abolished the Califate altogether, TIME, March 17, 1924). Immed- iately, throughout the Moslem world, there appeared claimants for the great title, the chief one being King Hussein of the Hedjaz. But, at the moment, the Califate cannot...
There is a situation in Turkey of which Senator King presented two aspects. The basic fact of this situation is that the Turks have moved their capital from Constantinople to Angora, as have the Bolsheviki from Leningrad (Petrograd) to Moscow. At Constantinople many of the Powers have costly embassy buildings and are not disposed, as the Turkish Government would have them do, to move to Angora, which, as a city, is neither prepossessing nor conveniently situate. But the chief reason upon which their refusal is based is the expense of building new embassy or legation quarters at primitive Angora...
...Turks, like the Bolsheviki in Leningrad, are allowing Constantinople to crumble. They do this without hesitation, asseverated Senator King, because, according to general opinion in the Near East, they have a secret agreement with Russia. This supposedly means that at some future date Russia may help Turkey to recapture her lost dominions in return for Constantinople, the age-old object of Russian foreign policy...