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Kemal Ataturk, first of the 20th-century Dictators, the man who transformed Turkey from mediaevalism to a progressive modern State; who has freed the 8,000,000 women from shackles of vell and harem, is dead..
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the astounding OICA Here story of this remarkable man.
"ENERAL Mustapha Kemal Pasha would
Sitting in the Government offices in Smyrna, this time wear- ing the khaki uniform and fur "kalpak" of a Turkish general, ho stated his terms of peace, both with the Greeks and with their Allied backers.
Ho said that if they were not granted he would march on Con- stantinople, then garrisoned by Allied troops..
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THAT threat brought like to have a talk with you,"
Britain to within said the Swiss manager of the hair's-breadth of another war in Pera Palace Hotel in Constan- the Near East. British troops tinople [now Istanbul], a few were rushed out to Constan- days after Turkey had signed tinople; the Dominions were her armistice with the Allies on asked to co-operate once more; October 30, 1918.
the Turkish Army advanced to I had just arrived with the within sight of the British lines Chief of Staff of the Salonica at Chanak. Army in a destroyer, before the The self-restraint and patience TRY THE 10 AND 12 H.P. Dardanelles had been opened by of General Sir Charles Haring-
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1938,
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the sweeping of the minefields. ton, then British Commander- At that time Mustapha Kemal, in-Chief at Constantinople, avert- whose death last Friday made ed this disaster. A truce was main page headlines all over the concluded at Mudaniu, and there world was known only as the able began the long conference of who had been Lausanne, at which the victori- obtained a very largely responsible for the defeat ous Turks
the favourable revision of the peace of the British attack on
treaty which they had been Gallipoli Península.
forced to sign after their defeat in the Great War. Frock-Coat And Fez
Kemal's career the
Commander-in-Chief,
seemed
to
He
Linked by "Isolation"
RITONS and Americans,
ENVER PASHA, have reached its climax. like members of a family, jealous of his successes, had tried had crushed the Greeks and turn
ed the tables on the Allied to side-track him, and Kemal had Powers. His countrymen be- sometimes let their very resem-
never got on well with the Ger-stowed on him the ancient Tur- blances push them apart. In
man General Staff in Turkey. kish title. of "Ghazi," or "Con- the United States there has
It soon transpired that the queror of the Infidel." a little com- object of his invitation to my- been more than
But Kemal was still only at plaint that Great Britain "etself was to try to find some the outset of his extraordinary means of conveying to the Bri- record of achievement, which has
from tish Government an offer of his transformed Turkey
mediaeval to a modern State. services.
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A day with a LEADER and
HIS
WIFE
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Wellesley-educated_wife, Mei-
ing Soong, have borne seemingly crushing burdens for more than a year. The pattern of life of probably the world's busiest man and wolfe is rigid, yet the two form a co-ordinated teams unique in history, in the following article, written shortly before the fall of Hankow, no ni mechland. respondent pictures a typical day with the generalissimo and Mme Chiang.
By F. M. FISHER
the
With his Interviewers out of the How does a man behave when
to Incoming reports and reads. the he is guiding the destinies of way the generalissimo turns again
newspaper reader, reading all nearly a quarter of the world's newspapers. He is an omnivorous population at war?
Chiang Kai-shek is unquestionably local papers, many from other ports the mainspring of China at war, His of China and digests (in Chinese)
of foreign publications. American-educated wife is his first
His wife ls of great
assistance I found him 悲 granite- He became the first of the lieutenant and closest conflente,
him many of the tre in keeping him in touch with for- sharing with man Dictators, and, having regard to mendous responsibilities of leading cign opinion by reading the foreign of 37, wearing a civilian frock the primitive social and economic the world's most populous nation papers and magazines and telling
conditions with which he had to through the perils of war. How do him about them.
Luncheon is served at 12:30 or 1 In England there has always
o'clock. Occasionally a high mil- In slow emphatic French he deal, his success is full worthy they conduct themselves from day to been a strong feeling that much expressed the opinion that to rank beside those of the heads day, how do they stand the strain?
Briefly the answer is that they live Itary commander or two, a few per- to share of Britain's troubles since the Turkey should never have sided of the authoritarian Governa life of almost monastle simplicity, Tonal friends, or sometimes a for-
against Britain. She must now ments of Western Europe.
closely adhering to personal rules and eign diplomat is Invited schedules that help them to remain the simple ment with the Chinese. war have come from caring for
pay the penalty of defeat, but, as To those who knew the old cnim nnd unfurried as they dispose Seldom are there more than five or
slx at the table. a foundling left on Europe's
n patriotic Turk, he hoped that, pre-Kemal Turkey the changes of an incredible amount of work. if Turkish territory was to be that he has wrought would seem
Although American or European While both "the generalissimo and occupied by the Allies, it would conceivable. In 1923 I travel- the dome," they are referred food is served several times each to- here, extremely reticent and week, lunch and dinner in the even- League of Nations. In London be the British and not the ted with him from Constantinople hun publicity of a personal nature, Ing are usually simple Chinese food
French who would take
over to Angora and saw the beginning close associates
21 have furnished Asia Minor.
of the revolution that he subse-plcture of a day in the life of this Chinese merchant or business In that case, he said, a staff of quently brought about in the couple.
After lunch the generalissimo Turkish officials would be need- life of his people.
The generalissimo invariably rises nt 8. Twenty or 30 minutes brisk takes a nap for 30 minutes or an ed, and he would be quite willing
hour, then deals again with the Angora [Ankaral], now a mo-setting-up exercises, a bath and 1 to serve, under British authority, dern European city, with hotels shave and he joins his wife at 7 for never-ending stream of documents as a Governor of one of the pro- of European standard, fine pub from 7 to 7.30 is never omitted, notabilshes direct contact with the field their "quiet time." This half hour, this after-lunch period that he es
and reports. It is usually during fic buildings, and broad boule-matter how pressing other affairs commanders at the front by tele-
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aban-
amid oficial appreciations of President Roosevelt's messages to Chancellor Hitler there are unofficial remarks about all this having been "unnecessary if America had not deserted the
Kemal then had in mind could lian town. League,"
in Chinese and one of the dally hears their reports, gives suggestions have been adopted, the whole The only inn was a verminous "Morning Readings"
prepared by and orders concerning actual opera- Clearly all
such recrimina subsequent history of the Middle wooden caravanserai, in which I' the Christian Literature Society of tions.
and Sometime during the afternoon he tions are unprofitable and indeed East might have been very had the greatest dificulty in Shanghai, discuss the reading
then kneel and pray together.
preyldes ut a sinif conference, at- different. But Asia Minor was accuring a dingy, whitewashed weakening. There is a danger not occupied. It remained under room with iron bedstead for my-an ordinary Chinese breakfast of rice-Staff, the Operations Board
Breakfast is a simple meal, usually tended by members of the General The sanitation was gruel, eggs and a vegetable or two. other military branches. that cach country will use the the nominal authority of a self alone.
puppet Turkish Government in of the Middle Ages, and the only The generalissimo never drinks flexibilty of the afternoon's other's poor behaviour to excuse
Constantinople, which was con- kind of bath available was coffee or even tea, feeling that even
a
these mild stimulants detract from gram permits occasional long Inter- its
Such backbiting trolled by the Allied High Com- petrol-tin filled with water.
his physical and mental ability to views and reports such as that which missioner there. makes for misunderstanding and
There was a single restaurant withstand the strains he must under Dr. Sun Fo recently made on re- turning from his important mission division at a time when under-
in the town, where goat's flesh go.
to Europe. the standing dish. The After breakfast the generalissimo
In peace times the Chiangs were standing and unity are needed.
THESE aged Turkish Prime Minister lived in the sta-turns at once to important military
dispatches und reports, making a accustomed to go for a short walk And it's all very foolish. Ameri-
in tion-master's office on the small rapid survey of the situation at the in the early evening, but even this who talk loudest about Kemal, with his past military railway platform. There were various fronts, then dictates urgent brief recreation has had to
Instructions and orders regarding dened owing to pressure of work achievements and political neti- then no diplomats in Angora, the conduct of operations. At 8:30 since hostilities commenced. British "responsibllity" often vitics, a source of potential dan- but the American Consul and his the first of u long line of visitors The Chiunga ordinarily dine at 7.30 or 8, the meal being similar to ones who want ger for themselves. They ac- wife inhabited a railway-coach. the same
cordingly sent him over to Asia Mustapha Kemal himself had) It is not unusual for 20 or 30 per- lunch. Afterward they enjoy a brief America to "wash its hands" of Minor in the following year to a small modern villa outside the sons-important government om- period of comparative relaxation, They read Europe. And Britong who re- act as Inspector-General.
town, and he showed me the sials, high military commanders, usually alone together.
nides and advisers to have bus-letters, a few late reports and some- proach America for "'isola- This gave him the opportunity plans of the new capital which iness of sufficient importance to times books. He always avoids con- tionlsın" wish fervently that the to organise that stronghold of he intended to create. I looked merit an interview with the gen-sideration or discussion of serious They retire eralissimo. To deal with this num- problems after dinner. the Turkish race not as an Allied out over
the desolate marshy ber of interviews he has upset old-at 10 or 11 o'clock. English Channel were as wide
en- Turkish plain depicted as its site and in-style Chinese official etiquette dependency but as n
Mme. Chlang's day, an full as that as the Atlantic.
complete tirely and established his own set of her husband, is more varied. Since registered Nationalist State, defiant of wardly
of rules: Sultan, Grand Vizier, and Allies scepticism.
relinquishing her post as secretary- First, visitors must come directly general of the Aeronautical Affairs niike.
"Father Of The Turks" to the point, expressing quickly and Commission she has turned her nt- With burning zeal and ruth-
concisely exactly what they have to tention to social welfare and relief less determination, he revived
work, chiefly with war orphans, wo- the warlike spirit of the Turkish
Second, a written to the
report should men and girl workers. She is also one of the leading spirits of the New Army to such effect that when last detail, and with a minimum these written reports are submitted
be prepared in advance. Sometimes Life Movement, participating active- the Greeks, two years later, of foreign help. Kemal abolish- the previous day to enable Chiang ircts and peting as virtunt head of ly in most of its social welfare pro- landed at Smyrna and marched on the State religion of Islam, to familierize himself with the de- tain conditions they will be in-up-country to seizo the rich did away with the harem, com talis. Even the style of these re- the women's section of the move
porta la revolutionary: Instead of volved. This similarity of pur-coastal zone that had been pro-pelled his people to adopt Euro-the old involutions and courtesles Investigations and planning for mised to them as their share of pean dress and habits of life, in- they must be as ferso and direct the work of these and other projects poses and positions ought to
the war-booty, Kemal, after first troduced Latin script and figures as a good executive's business letter, together with her personal Cor-.. help cach to "see oursel's as
She usually attends to her corrce-. othera sco us." A shared desire and in a series of swift victories, and even obliged the Turks to
His associates, say that in these pendence personally, often typing her Much of 1 in with for "isolation" from what Mr. drove the whole Greek Army assume surnames, setting the interviews tho generalisalmo earn own letters,
foreigners, elther
Chinn in Chamberlain spoke of the other heller-skelter out of Asia Minor. example by taking for himself the man out, asks a fow questions
abroad. It was on the morrow of this that of "Ataturk," or "Father of and then delivers an immediate de- day as quarreling "In a distant
cision, since he cannot afford the During the afternoons Mme. success, which had astounded the Turks."
time to defer decisions and pile up Chiang receives visitors. Her Hot of land' should be not a cause of
and dismayed the Allied Govern Amid so conservative a race work. A Chinese stenographer interviewers is often nearly as long division, but a bridge to under-ments, that I had my second these changes wore bound to makes a complate record of each, and important as her husband'...
interview. (Continued on Page 3.)
(Continued on Page 5.) standing.
meeting with Mustapha Kemal.
Actually both nations arc moved by similar motives; both are trying to keep as free from trouble as emotions, interesis, ideals, and self-respect will per- mit. Both fear that under cer-
YET his schemes have say or ask.
been fulfilled
Tment.
falling back before them, turned, instead of Arabic characters, Ave minutes.
Third, visitora are allowed just respondence occupy her mornings.
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