Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speakers, who are taking graduate courses in the University, with the nations of which they will be the representatives, are as follows: Vincent Phen, China; Gerhart Jentsch, Austria; C. S. Pexas, Greece; G. N. Tanikawe, Japan; B. G. Ohlin, Sweden; Said Dabbus, Turkey; Zygmunt Rudolph, Poland; Sigrud Fjaer, Norway; Jules Roman, Belgium...
Ismet Pasha, General, statesman, politician and head of the Turkish delegation at Lausaune, gave evidence of Turkish intractibility by informing Joseph C. Grew, the United States Observer, that Turkey would cancel the Chester concession if America insisted upon special rights for her citizens in Turkey. Grew replied tersely to the effect that nothing would deter him from protecting United States citizens and their commercial interests...
...name means. His frank statement that the Turkish troops now on the Syrian border were sent there to " drive a hard bargain with the French" can only mean one of two things-bluff or business. The situation is extremely delicate and might lead to war between France and Turkey on the smallest inadvertent provocation by local troops. Neither Turkey nor France can afford to risk such an event, which would assuredly wreck the Lausanne conference. Nevertheless, the Turks met the French ultimatum to withdraw troops from the Syrian frontier by increasing their army from...
Discussing the system of national public education in Turkey, Dr. Fuad said, "The plans of the Nationalist government include the establishment of public schools for both children and adults. There are very few teachers at present, however, so that before the schools can be started instructors must be trained. In each of the nine divisions of Turkey a teaching college has been founded to educate the teachers. These teachers will go out to the little villages as soon as they are ready, but their duties will not be wholly in the intellectual line. They will be moral and social leaders...
...remain in Syria. He also informed Ismet Pasha that France is prepared to send two divisions (or more if necessary) to Syria. At the same time as General Pelle was making French policy clear to Ismet Pasha a Turkish member was explaining to the press that Turkey had sent troops to the Syrian border " because deeds were better than words...