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Consequences Of Revolution.
and
EVERYWHERE
The Danzig Appointment
During his four years' residence
in Geneva as Irish Free State per-
manent delegate accredited to the
MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1933.
CAN KEMAL PASHA KEEP IT UP?
CHANGES OF CENTURY
IN A DECADE
League of Nations, Mr. Sean Les 10TH YEAR OF TURKISH REPUBLIC
ter, who was recently appointed!
High Commissioner of Danzig, has
had to attend about 300 League |
and Committee meetings a year.
The pronunciation of Mr. Les-
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(By Kenneth Williams.)
ter's Christian name rives great! Republican Turkey is celebrated, must respond as Turks. Nor shali trouble to Continental delegater. her tenth anniversary at the end they read the Koran in anything It was his enthusiasm for commit of last month. It was an import-but Turkish. tee work which made one of hant occasion.
Time alone can show whether colleagues suggest that he should Turks now
feel that they have such deerees will result ultimately modify "Sean" to "seance," that be consolidated their regime, that in the decay of Islam in Turkey, or ing the generic name for all man both internal and external danger in the establishment of a sort of [ner of League meetings,
is, if not dispelled, at least remot National Church in the Republic. Irish Preferred.
ler than it was a few years ago, thai. What is quite definite is that Mr. Lester is not the first Irish-the diplomacy of their represents the Turks have renounced the old: man to fill the post; Mr. M. S. Mactives, which can win the favours at international ideals of Islam. and. of Soviet Russia and of that, if they remain Moslems, they Donnell held it from 1923 to 1921 once
will do so not so much as brothers: He succeeded the first Commission-France is superb.
Never a modest folk, the Turks of the vast Mussulman world out- er, who was an Englishman, Gen-i
are inclined, in short, to indulge inside their borders, but of their own eral Sir Richard Hacking,
some self-congratulation.
free choice as a separate and in- The retiring Commissioner is
Is this wise? In premature? |dividual notion. Dane, a nationality which is wel comed by Foland as likely to have Is the "new Turkey," as the Anato
Turks' Biggest Mistake memories of Schleswig-Holstein. inlian remnant of the Ottoman
!pire is called. so very different At present the Turks are acting the same way an Irish Free State.
Eski kamou caki enthusiastically under the impetus national is welcomed by Germany from the old? on the perhaps far-fetched political as the cynical Turks used to say of an historical concept, which is theory that the Free State also re-whenever reforms were mooted or probably no better founded in fact sents the sundering of her terri-practised-"It's the same old bath than a similar theory now agitat ing the German nation. This is and the same old bath-bowl." tory by the separation of Ulster.
the theory of the origin of the Earlier Reforms
Turks. Your Daily Smile
EVOLUTION Child (pointing to bald-headed man): "Mummy, is he a nudist?"
Mother: "Yes, dear, but only a
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With Intereat
Em-
Those age old men. sipping It la not new-many students, in- their sherbet on the banks of the deed, were attracted to it when tho atill firmly on the- Bosphorus, did not believe in the Sultans were capacity of politicians to change throne in Constantinople-but it
has been revived in new form.. the nature of the Turk.
Has the leopard, then, really The Turks now believe that they changed its spots? Assuredly it derive directly from the first oc- will not be the tapit of Mustafa cuplers of Anatolia-that all the
example,. Kemal Pasha and his colleagues 17 Hittite conquests, for
BAD CASE
vall for women, green- the
That of the ambitious
is tending. Since 1917 Europe whom the Government brought ledge of the business. has experienced more revolutions to justice in spite of world opin-
and more dictatorships than dur-ion. Finally, came the trial of Journey Saved jing any other period in history. the British engineers this year.
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the
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Russia, while the Stalin regime|beginner."
in the throes of a fierce struggle with the Trotskyist op position. In a panic, the Gov The argument started over A that metamorphosis is not achler-were nothing but Turkish con- ernment staged the Prove trial borrowed fryingpan, passing by ed. The pace of their reforms his quests. They even claim the Sum- after arresting all Soviet citizens easy stages through defects in been terrifie: they are the pattern erian civilisation as a Turkish cíví- who had had any kind of deal-character, facial and other bodily or the envey of all would-be, pro-lisation. And the more they extal ings with persons of British na-peculiarities, to what one person gressive States in the Middle East. the ancient achievements of their tionality. In 1928 followed the would do to another that other The earlier reforms of the Glazi, ancestors the more they depreciate
in did not look out.
or Saviour, as the Turks exult in the efforts of the Turks after they The case of Mr. Nod Panter.inotorious Shachty drama,
Then came a slight lull in the calling the President of their Re- had adopted Islam. the British journalist arrested which certain German engineers
public, are too well known to need They assert, in short, that their and expelled from Germany for were tried for sabotage during storm.
"After all, Mrs. Briggs." Bald discussion here. Some of them, tying-up with the Arabs and having described a Nazi demon-extraordinary proceedings which stration at Kelheim as militaris-were trumpeted throughout Rus- Mrs. Maan, "you needn't get in such as the abolition of the Sul-consequent responsibility for the back more tanate. of the Ottoman Caliphate, Ottoman Empire, were a profound tic is not yet closed as the Bri-sa at a time when the country's uppish. I often pays
of the Capitalations, or the expul-mistake. tish Government's request to fortunes were at their lowest ebb, than I barrowA."
Greeks, In all this historiography Mun- "Yes, I can see that," retorted slon of Armenians and Berlin for an explanation of the faced with famine, peasant re- matter has not yet been answer-volts and industrial, stagnation. Mrs. Briggs; "this 'ere pan 'ada't were absolute and final: they were tafa Kemal places himself first: the Bolsheviks got to no 'ole in it when you the ejection of useless or outmoded Hitler himself in no more fruitfu! ed. Doultless the Nazi authori- By it, in effect,
or undesirable lumber, and essen-of theories of "Aryan" than the ties. by now recognising their declared that since their policy borrowed it!"
Ghazi of “Turks." tially destructive. blunder, will seek to evade the must of necessity be infallible,
Others, such as the abolition of Not that Turkey is seeking "new issue. The affair, however, raises the extant poverty and distress
have been landa to conquer in Turki-speaking the question, and possibly gives could only be explained as the
indication of the direc- outcome of sabotage and inter-grocer who bought "Foxe's Book of elected only in the more civilised countries of Central Asia; her
foreign enemies, Martyrs" to improve his know-or urban districts: for these, the statesmen are far too shrawd tion in which the Nazi revolution ference by
constructive ideas, time is needed. suggest any extravaganzas such The emancipation of woman in as that in which, just after the Turkey la by no means complete. Great War, Enver Pasha unsuccess- Old Pat lived in the country miles True, she is no longer required to fully indulged,
But they are anxious that their All of these are characterised by just when Russians were being from any town. Lately, however, be stout (In the old days beggars
that country should be the main cul- make extreme he had made it his practice to walk wanting aims used to wish most of the features usually compelled to
of once a week to the nearest town and "Allah' might give one a wife as tural influence in all Turki-speak- found associated with such sacrifices in the name
stout as an orange," she can Ing lands. Their ideal is, in the Minister of phenomena in the past one be the Five Year Plan, and it purchase his weekly paper.
One Saturday he entered the move freely, without escort, she words of the Turkish ing the principle enunciated by was thought, advisable to revive Jaures, that if a revolution is to popular enthusiasm by evidnewsagent's shop, paid for and re-can take up a profession, she can Education, that "a Turkish news- paper published in Constantinople of the asserted sub-ceived his paper, and was about to even be a policewoman. maintain itself, it must be de-jence
But she can an yet vote only at or Ankara should be read and under- fended. From this it follows versive activities of capitalist leave when an idea struck him. “I
Thus, these trials, Bay, mister," he said to the news-municipal elections; in the Parlia-stood by all Turks, from the Ar that all criticism and liberty offeneniles
Ruled By Realism speech must be suppressed, en apart from political motives, have agent, "give me another copy of this ment she has no say. Nor is it gean Sea to the borders of China."
when paper; It'll save me the trouble of probable that a Suffragette move- tailing a strict censorship and taken place at moments
ment will ever aries in Turkey, It is undeniably impressive, this But it is of the latter, and less reforming zeal of the Turks. They the abolition of the liberty of the Lie Government, perceived signs coming in next week."
Indolent called an Press. But further, as Emil of waning popular interest, and
[picturesque, reforms, which natur-have been
ally have attracted less attention. people; they are so no longer, Ludwig reports Mussolini as any they served to provide scapegoats
that I wish to write hero.
[Continued on Page 8.).. creates for failures, to act as popular Ing. "every revolution new forms, new myths, and new circuses and revivers of mass
Mustafa Kemal Pasha is a born rites; and the would-be revolu- enthusiasm, to, demonstrate the
For carrying injured or uncon-driver, merciless with whip and tiont t. while using old tradi-supposed machinations of foreign scious persons a device has been blt. Not for an instant has he tions, must refashion them. He enemies, and to afford opportun-invented that resembles two ice slackened his resolve to re-gener- must create new festivals, new ties for publicly justifying the tongs suspended from the shoulders ate his nation. He does not mere- gestures, new forms, which will Government's policy. The Nazis of a man doing the carrying. ⠀ ly issue an edict and leave it for themselves in turn become tra- have borrowed from Bolshevik
subordinates: to carry through. ditional." Hence, there have technique, more than they care to
Germans have developed three Whenever possible he himself takes Not only do they sub wheeled automobiles that can make the lead in publicly witnessing his appeared a good many novel de- admit. velopments in the technique of scribe to the doctrine of the perspeed of 50 miles an hour and trust in Westernisation: this per revolutions, emanating for the manent revolution and follow the carry two persons, and that are sonal testimony is of untold value. most part from Soviet Rusale, concept of State planning, but classed as bicycles to escape taxa whence came the theory of the so they believe in the latest tion. permanent revolution" under fashions of Press propaganda and
Facts You Did Not Know.
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Which other ruler to-day would |have a blackboard erected in a vil- lage street and then with a chalk
FUNERAL OF FIRE VICTIM.
Full Honours Paid To Dead Fireman,
PROCESSION TO WHARF
Full honours were paid to Mol Tong, the fireman who lost his life.
the direction of a tyranny, in the perversion. Moreover, although
A process has been developed for demonstrate to butcher and baker in Thursday night's disastrous fire. guise of a dictatorship, for the their rule is but eight months making starch from sweet potatoes the correct way in which to spell attainment of a vague Utopia in aald. they have adopted the sub-too small or otherwise unnt for thele language? ... far-distant future, Two such terfage of trial publicity, as evid-eating, the colour 'that heretofore developments are seen in the perenced by the Reichstag fire trial was objectionable being, removed.. version. not merely the enslave Perhaps dictators," with army
Islam. Abolished
on
when his remains were taken from the mortuary to Connaught wheri,. on Saturday afternoon, en route to his native village in the Shenmei But probably his greatest reform district of Chungshan Province.
A Chinese band headed the pro-. mant, of the Press and its con and police behind them, having Two British scientists have ads. In the realm of religion. The version into an Instrument pure scized absolute power, and then vanced a theory that the continents Turks, as everyone knows, are cession, and following in the Im ly of propaganda: and the stag having suppressed all opposition, originally were nearer the equator Moslems: possibly they will al- mediate rear of the comn were the ing of apectacular trials of so muzzled the Press, put all critics than at present and were moved to Ways be so. But for their conquest Hon, Mr. E, D, C. Wolfe, Inspector- called Justice. A glance at the in gaol, and abolished all liberty ward the poles as the earth cooled. of Arab lands, indeed, there was a General of Police And Chief Officer more glaring of these is Mumindo confer benefits on the gov ating In 1925 there was thened They think that, by trial at Moscow of three young broadcasting in newspapers, over German students on charges of the air, at the cinema. at the creative life goes out of the Yet, in the conquests of Islam, as Hong Kong Fire Brigade Chief "counter-revolutionary activities" theatre, in all literature, on all State. When ons compares con such, Mustafa Kemal takes little Inspector R. ILE, Marks and and espionage. In this case the planforms, and in the courts of ditions to day in the democracies pride. He spurns the drug of the delathment of 20 Chinese mamm- students served as hostages for law, a new day has dawned. But of the British Empire and France Arab or Semitic religion, which, in beis of the Hong Kong Police the release of an important Beloven. If ) succmarul they only with Those endured under the is view, has acted as an Intoler Force: Station Officer Call-and- shevik who had been Imprisoned erect a tyranny over the body of iron hel of existing tyrannies, able, log on the progress of the other Fire Department officials; all in Germany, and the trial offer liberty was once said of it is evident that progress, en-Turks. And so he abolished Islam the available Sub-Officers and ed an excellent opportunity for Bismarck in the cans of Gar-lightenment, and national, solid, as the State religion of Turkey Criends of the deceased. mud-slingizg
chance or danger that Islam In its of the Fire Brigade'; Buperintend-" claim to be a world-faith"; would ent II. T. Brooks and Deputy Superi- £11. sz. tendent. J. C. Filz Henry of the.
one dramatic many, he made Germany great ify spring from, the genius of Naimore will the musgeld be| A motor - Bre-escape followed, scale at that nation. The maxt and the Germans amalls Certain free, peoples. This has never permitted the call to pragir”) id covered with wrestling and other recurred in 1927, Just after the it in that no dictatur, has ever been more, strikingly demons the traditional Arable, If the moral tributes from the Fire British Government had broken created a lastin prosperity, for, strated than in the experience of people choose to obey that call it Brigade, the Police and friends and:
Hiplomatic relations with with the suppression of miliciam, certain other nations to day, ce must be made in Turkish, and they relatives at the deceased: