Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cited the large number of Danish ships sunk by submarines despite the fact that Denmark was natural. Meisling was for restricting them. G. F. Jentsch SG., delegate from Germany, claimed that submarines were no more dangerous to non-combatants than other weapons of war. S. Dabbus 1G., delegate from Turkey, gave a very interesting sidelight into the view of the entente as regards German submarine war fare, and said that he believed in the destruction of commerce by submarines as the only means to keep munitions from the enemy...
Mustapha Kemal Pasha, President of Turkey: "From Constantinople it was reported that I, ill with heart disease, 'had apparently suffered a relapse...
...Porte the treaty will probably be passed. Clearly it will mark a new stage of dealing with the "terrible Turk;" and its advantage lies in the fact that an era of good feeling is made possible by America's renunciation of the humiliating concessions which have been forced from Turkey in the past. Coupled with the treaty provisions which permit American vessals to cruise in Turkish waters this friendlier feeling should prove a stimulus to the gradually expanding Turkish American trade...
...great editors left." Rising, gray-haired and aged, to be sole defender of the press, comes a representative of a former generation of journalists. He is Talcott Williams, a newspaperman for 50 years in Springfield, Mass., Manhattan and Washington-an authority on Turkish affairs (he was born in Turkey) and now, in his 75th year, Director and Professor Emeritus of the School of Journalism of Columbia University...
James W. Gerard, former U. S. Ambassador to Germany: "As protest against the Lausanne Treaty, I gave a lunch to 50 distinguished men at the Yale Club, Manhattan. The sense of the meeting as reported was that if the Senate ratifies the Lausanne Treaty with Turkey, the Stars and Stripes will be trailed in the mud by the weakest and lowest of all nations...