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Sirs: In a recent letter I received from my people in the Island of Cyprus, whose population is composed of Greeks and Turks, I am informed that the Turks are very jealous over the publicity that the Greeks are getting in Albania, and that they are dying to get into the war so that they can take the spotlight away from the Greeks. Like a ham actor whose greatest thrill in life is to be on the stage, even if he is there just to hold a spear, the Turkish soldier is anxiously waiting for that...
...night she said: 'If I had spent a thousand dollars for it, such an occasion would not have come to us, so let us enjoy ourselves.' Twenty-five days passed and I was still at the Turk's house, always thinking of ways and means of escaping...
...chief unknown quantity in all these calculations is Turkey, which, holding the Dardanelles and the Bosporus, has the most strategic position of all. The Turk is a good soldier but the Turkish Army has outdated equipment. In Europe Turkey is only a second-rate adversary although if she were forced to retire to the mountains of Asia Minor she might become more difficult to deal with...
...defense of public morals in Istanbul rushed one Ibrahim Hakki Konyali, a Turk of doubtful learning but steely ethic. Haled into court at his insistence was the publisher of the first Turkish translation of Aphrodite, by Pierre Louys, for 50 years a classic of carnality among Frenchmen and U. S. undergraduates. Istanbul bubbled like a hookah. Enlightened Turkish newspapers were highly incensed with Ibrahim Hakki Konyali. Then on Istanbul book stalls appeared a new Aphrodite, adorned with a photograph of a sculptured nude, billed as "the book everyone is talking about." The author: Ibrahim Hakki Konyali...
...hardy Swiss," the "resolute Turk," the freedom-loving Dutch, in fact all European neutrals, won eulogies last week from First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. He poured it out in a radio speech from London. But it was not all admiration for these brave peoples. Blunt Mr. Churchill, speaking with a back-throat lisp caused by a badly fitting upper plate, went on to say things that hitherto Great Britain has uttered only under her breath...