Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the week two opposed views on Turkey were presented, one in a book* by Clair Price, the other in a magazine article by Edward Hale Bierstadt...
...compass of 234 pages Mr. Price follows the career of Mustapha Kernel Pasha, first President of the Republic of Turkey, gives the Turkish angle of the War and presents some rather acrimonious comment on Christianity in the Land of Islam. So far so good. The author goes farther afield and animadverts upon "Germany in Islam," British policy toward Turkey, Russia and Turkey. In particular does he berate the Anglo-Russian treaty of 1907 which paved the way for completion of the Triple Entente by King Edward VII with the Tsar of Russia at Reval in 1908. Although much that...
Among the most apposite remarks Mr. Price made are those on religion. The relations of the British Crown, as the greatest Mohammedan Power on earth, with India while fighting Mohammedan Turkey are summed up: "One sometimes wonders, on that exalted plane on which Sovereigns dwell, what the Emperor of India has been saying to the Defender of the Faith...
...announcement that Henry Lane Wilson of Indiana is to be appointed next ambassador to Turkey recalls the rather disrespectful reply of the Sultan when he was once courteously asked if he should like to receive an ambassador from the United States. "No" he said, "I have enough of those fools hanging around me now!" Ambassadors, it seems, were entitled to his "ear"; but the American minister along with the other ministers had only the right of negotiating through the Grand Vixier. America's unique conception of democracy long forbade an exchange of ambassadors who as the highest in diplomatic rank...
...done many things that are wrong, he added, and it has done many things that are right, "but it has never attempted to do anything that it has not done well." The support of the United States will make it all-powerful. Germany, Russia, Equador, The Dominican Republic, Mexico, Turkey, Afghanistan, and the United States are the only nations outside of the League...