Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge of perjury. She had rushed off to Rumania to implore Magda Lupescu, King Carol's mistress, to provide asylum for the fugitive. But Insull had not reached that asylum, and Mme Couyoumdjoglou had sailed back to Istanbul only to find that her hero, Insull, was inside a Turkish jail waiting deportation...
...news, tears filled her expressive eyes. Waving her Greek passport at the Turkish immigration officers she demanded to go ashore to Insull's aid. Her passport did not have a Turkish visa and they refused. Desperate, she tried to push past them at the ship's rail. One of them seized her shoulder. She wrenched to get away, toppled backwards, slid over the rail into the harbor. She came up blowing the foul water from her mouth. A sailor with a boat hook fished her out. They carried her prostrate and drenched back to her cabin...
Meanwhile in Istanbul's House of Detention Samuel Insull staged his last fight against deportation. He employed an English barrister, Alexander Mango, to appeal his case to the Court of Cassation (Turkish Supreme Court). When the Turkish attorney general visited him he got more comforts: an armchair, a stove instead of a brazier to warm his cell. Often he was depressed but seldom wept...
Next day Insull got himself a Turkish lawyer to appeal his case, got himself transferred to a better hotel, began to take heart again. As he was sitting in the lounge reading papers after luncheon, five Turkish detectives marched in, surrounded him, lugged him off to the House of Detention near the Mosque of St. Sophia-to lie behind bars until deported. Same day, to make his fate more certain, the Turkish Assembly at Ankara ratified an extradition treaty with the U. S.-a treaty negotiated in 1923, which had lain forgotten for eleven years...
...gives the clearest exposition of it extant. He deprecates the view that Lawrence's success as a leader of irregular troops came from innate genius, calls Lawrence a profound student of tactics, a military thinker. Basis of Lawrence's tactical scheme was to avoid battles, destroy Turkish material and morale. Says Lawrence: ". . . Suppose we were an influence (as we might be), an idea, a thing invulnerable, intangible, without front or back, drifting about like gas? . . . To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife. . . . The death of a Turkish bridge or rail...