Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, the King and Mrs. Simpson merrily boarded a special salon railway car at Aberdeen and set out for London, it being announced by the Sunday Referee that the wild strains of Hungarian gypsy music will soon be heard in Buckingham Palace. King Edward, in addition to inviting Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kamâl Atatürk to visit him in London, has also, according to the Referee, invited Koez Antal, "Hungary's Most Famous Gypsy Bandmaster,'' to give a concert for His Majesty's dinner guests at Buckingham Palace. That Mrs. Simpson was traveling...
...friend Talaat Pasha, Grand Vizier of Turkey, a gentle cynic who, when pressed about the Armenian question, would suggest that it was solved since there were no Armenians left. Anxious to have Turkey represented at an international Socialist Congress, Talaat was embarrassed to find that there were no Turkish Socialists either. He appointed three members of parliament as Socialists ad hoc, teased them thereafter about their synthetic extremism...
...King Edward's invitation to Mustafa Kamal Ataturk to visit His Majesty in Buckingham Palace was last week the subject of a diplomatic note in which the Turkish Dictator intimated that he might not find it "practicable" to come but would send Turkish Premier Ismet Inönü. After correspondents had talked with agitated officials of the British Foreign Office. United Press reported: "Edward's invitation was extended without the Government's knowledge. . . . Perplexed British diplomats point out that while they are pleased with improvement in recent Anglo-Turkish relations they can see no tangible topics...
Afterward Castle guests were shown movies taken on the recent royal yachting cruise. In these the King and Mrs. Simpson, always side by side, figured with such local rulers as the Turkish Dictator and Mrs. Simpson was seen riding through the streets of .Athens seated at the King's right hand in his official car amid the plaudits of the Greeks. All this was news to most of the assembled Dukes and Duchesses in Balmoral last week, for such scenes have been rigidly kept from the British newspaper-reading and newsreel-viewing public by a form of British self...
...something like a League panic, sincere Geneva friends of Democracy did their best to temporize, talked of referring matters to The Hague Court-anything for delay. When short-sighted Turkish Foreign Minister Tewtik Rushtu Aras first sat down he did not notice that in the new League building had been hung a magnificent antique tapestry depicting Emperor Charles V driving the Turkish barbarians in confusion from Vienna in the year 1529. When through his thick-lensed spectacles Dr. Aras at last saw this he raised a shrill rumpus and the League, as a conciliatory gesture to Dictator Mustafa Kamal Atat...