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Died. Kara Kemal, onetime member of the Young Turk Committee of Union and Progress, sentenced to death as ringleader of the recent plot to assassinate President Mustapha Kemal Pasha of Turkey (TIME, July 26, TURKEY) ; in Stamboul (Constantinople), after shooting himself when a group of policemen surrounded and sought to arrest...
...enumerate the decorations bestowed upon him by practically every Allied nation would be to fill half a column of TIME needlessly. He was Allenby, the last Crusader, the commander who wrested the Holy Land from the Turk...
BITTERN POINT?Virginia Macfadyen-A. & C. Boni ($2). We have but two fitful glimpses of the piratical, tongueless Turk of these pages. Both occur in a swamper's hut in the 18th Century Carolinas. We infer that he is shy a finger on his strangling hand, that his dagger has a permanent wave and that his ministrations upon the persons of five young women derive from Jack the Ripper. We infer, that is all. Yet that is ample to earn this Turk several graduate and honorary degrees in murdery. From the barest hints he becomes a lurking presence whose actuality...
...debating the Anglo-Irak Treaty (TIME, Feb. 15,) which His Majesty's fiery Colonial Secretary, Colonel Leopold Stennett Amery defended in part as follows: "The rejection of this covenant would make Great Britain ridiculous in the eyes of the League of Nations, contemptible in the eyes of the Turk and odious in the eyes of the people of Irok...
...Before the abolishment of the caliphate in Turkey, our religion and our conscience kept us away from liquor. Now the law forbids the Turks to imbibe, but we can get the stuff if we want on the sly. But the problem of bad, poisonous alcohol is just the same as in the United States. I will say, though, that the idea inherent in a Turk for centuries that he shall not drink or gamble because his religion so demands, still persists. He believes that drink leads toward degeneration of his race. His religion works for higher ideals, as any creed...