Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Admiral Bristol is the only pearl in our yoke of thorns!" cried the official Turkish newspaper Milliet last week, and its editor declared himself "inflamed with consuming anguish at the departure of our Great Friend." What has Mark Lambert Bristol, hard-swearing quarterdeck-man, done to draw such a halo of fulsome Turkish affection around his trim Admiral...
When the Young Turk Party seized the Government (1922) and (1923) transferred the Turkish Capital to Angora in Asia Minor, out of range of Allied warships, Admiral Bristol immediately sensed that the new regime of President-Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha was healthy, and, in any case, unshakable. While the U. S. Department of State was beginning to wonder whether it would recognize the Young Turk Government, Admiral Bristol strode into the office of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, and two fighting men shook hands (1924). Up to that time no Allied representative had called on Kemal. Soon or late, all took...
...State Department last week formally announced the appointment of Joseph C. Grew, Under Secretary of State, as Ambassador to Turkey, following the receipt of word from Constantinople that Mr. Grew was persona grata to the Turkish Government...
...been in the foreign service for 24 years, in Egypt, Mexico City, St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Berlin, Vienna, Berne, Copenhagen. He has been Minister to Denmark and to Switzerland, was Secretary of the American Peace Commission at Versailles, negotiated the Lausanne Treaty (not ratified by the Senate) with the Turkish Nationalist Government. It was also announced that Robert E. Olds, Assistant Secretary of State, would succeed Mr. Grew as Under Secretary of State. Mr. Olds was once law partner of Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg...
Since the present relations of the U. S. and Turkey are more than usually amicable (due to Admiral Bristol) there remains for his successor chiefly the task of devising with Turkish statesmen some means whereby the U. S. Senate may eventually be brought to recognize as a fait accompli the post-War status of Turkey. Other nations have done this by ratifying the Lausanne Treaty, but the U. S. continues to refuse, chiefly because many U. S. clergymen still heatedly allege the "oppression" of Christians in Turkey...