Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much is the beauteous daughter of a deposed Caliph worth? How much for his cousin who is also the great granddaughter of the late Turkish ex-Sultan Murad V? Right up to the moment when the double marriage contract was signed in Caliph Abdul Medjid's villa last week, furiously polite Oriental haggling continued over the terms...
...London the Turkish Embassy revealed that the Turkish Government asked the British Government fortnight ago not to permit restoration of the Caliphate anywhere in the Empire, particularly not in Jerusalem. Turks, who are doing very well with their pragmatic Republic, fear a revival of Moslem piety, a reaction against President Kemal should the Caliphate be restored...
...Every regime in the world, even the Turkish and Afghan, allows its subjects a modicum of liberty. Fascism alone, in self defense, is obliged to annihilate all thought...
Ensued nearly ten years of neglect. Rust nearly did what the British Navy could not, but in 1926 the French shipbuilding firm of Penhoet at St. Nazaire, builders of the liners Ile de France, Paris and France, offered to rebuild her. The Turkish Government accepted on condition that the entire job be done in Turkey...
From Angora it was announced that henceforth His Excellency Mouhtar Bey, Turkish Ambassador to the U. S., must consider himself Turkish Minister to Mexico as well, hold himself ready to rush to Mexico City in emergencies. Abruptly abolished was the post of Turkish Minister to Madrid, where the Turkish legation will function permanently under a Chargé d'Affaires. Reason for both: Economy...