Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mr. Insull woke from a nap he was irritated to learn that the Turks had forbidden the Maiotis' departure. Next day when the ban continued he was alarmed. Turkish police came out and demanded that he go ashore with them. Indignantly he refused, and handsome, swarthy John Ioannis Mousouris, master of the Maiotis, hurried down from the bridge to protest volubly in Greek. Sadly puzzled and somewhat dismayed, the Turkish police retired to their launch...
Meantime diplomats were buzzing in Washington, in Athens and in Ankara on the bare uplands of Asia Minor. U. S. Ambassador Skinner was pressing a request that the Turks arrest Mr. Insull under Article IX of the Turkish penal code permitting the detention of foreigners accused in their countries of crimes not of a political or military nature. A cablegram was delivered from Greek Foreign Minister Maximos protesting the detention of the Maiotis. Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Bey and confrères considered: Should they oblige the U. S. or should they offend Greece? It was not a difficult question...
Thereupon Turkish police paid a third visit to the Maiotis. Samuel Insull was in his pajamas. They ordered him to come with them as he was and prepared to carry out their command by force. As a concession they finally allowed him to dress. Then they put him in their launch and carried him ashore in a pouring rain. They arraigned him in a Turkish court. An interpreter was found who knew little Turkish and less English. The court debated: was Samuel Insull a Turkish citizen? No. Was his crime political or military? No. Therefore he should be detained, handed...
Beaming Insull walked out and haled a taxicab. Two Turkish policemen leaped in after him, and his face fell. They drove up a back street to a little fifth-rate hotel, got him a shabby room. Ignorant of what it was all about Insull raged and despaired. He sat down on his bed. "I am all alone," he said. "I am a victim of fate." He began to weep...
...Turkish authorities planned to accompany the Maiotis through Turkish waters to prevent his making a secret landing...