Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After waiting for long I have at last found a weak spot. You were not at all clear in regard to the Turkish gentleman by the name of Kemal. On p. 19, June 13, under Turkey, you speak of Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha and in the next paragraph you speak of Divisional Commander Kemal without explaining that you were talking about two men, each with the name Kemal...
...included Constantinople during the Great War. General Kemal the defender, when introduced, explained that while his name was Kemal and spelled exactly as Dictator Kemal spells his, there was no relationship. I doubt if your readers realized by reading your article that you were talking about two distinct outstanding Turkish characters, the Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha and General Kemal, the defender...
...Turkish statesmen, whose time-honored profession is playing the rest of Europe off against Russia, scored again last week at Rome...
Recently brisk little Premier Ismet Pasha made a goodwill visit to Moscow (TIME, May 9) on which he scooped up an $8,000,000 loan, payable in Soviet goods, repayable in Turkish. Last week, Premier Ismet fraternized with Premier Mussolini, sipped his Asti spumante, swallowed his spaghetti, toyed with his black olives and figuratively held out an upturned Turkish palm. After dinner Il Duce entertained his Turkish friend by playing the violin. When Premier Ismet finally left for home he had secured a $15,000,000 loan, one-third in cash, the rest in Italian manufactures...
Meanwhile the British Empire had moved by flattery to retain the goodwill of Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha. The British Embassy at Ankara conveyed to President Kemal a presentation copy of the two-volume British official history of the Gallipoli campaign...