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August 14, 1941.
Ismet Inonu... Turkey's Little Man With a Big Fist
ISMET, INONU, PRE-
SIDENT OF TURKEY and Commander-in-Chief of her Army, is a gray-haired little man, short and slim, and afflicted with deafness which probably began when he was an artillery officer. He is unusually
and even spoken in his manner. His deaf-
soft
gentle
ness is famous in diplo- matie circles where its con- venience is proverbial. In Turkey's modern history he stands second only to the late Kemal Ataturk, swash- buckling founder of the Turkey we know to-day. But there were times when even Kemal had to listen to Ismet.
He
UFS
alone was worth an entire mo- Allled Commander-in-Chief in and later dern army. And he promptly. Constantinople set about making one.
Governor of Gibraltar, rose and
Ismet became Kemal's right- held out his hand to Ismot who handman, hie most trusted licu. stood up and took the Briton's hand across the table. It was tenant.
the first handshake between the First, Ismet insisted that there must be law and order in two, and the first between their nations since 1914. That the Turkish robel army.
handclasp has not been loosened since.
In the following year, when the well equipped and brave Greek Army made its great of-
FROM 1924 to 1927 and until again from. 1930 fensive in Asia Minor, Ismet, in direct command of the new Tur- 1937, Ismet held the post of kish western army, brought Prime Minister almost without their offensive to a halt at interruption. With Kemal Ata- Inonu, the village which gave turk in the Presidency, Ismet him his surname a few years was in direct charge of modern programme. later when every Turk was Turkey's reform bound by law to adopt a family Harems and polygamy were abolished by law. Women werd
name.
doesn't
the "New
By EDWARD J. BING
like Order"
Hongkong Telegraph. with Britain, France, Italy Minor and raised the standard heroit Greek Army were Lise and European sisters.
Thursday, Aug. 14, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015
Titi: prefix "Special to the Telegraph" Indicate nows which is strictly copyright
is used by the "longkong Telegraph" to
under the provisions of the Telecommuni- rations Ordinance, 1918. Buch news as bears the indication "UK" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re-
to
women
by
given antequal legal status to the men's, and got the vote. The Swiss civil law code and a In July, 1923, the new
In 1918, Allenby smashed the On Aug. 26, 1922, the Turkish brand new criminal code on the Turkey had just risen from the ruins of the one-time Turkish front in Palestine. The Western Army, led by Ismet, Western model were adopted. Turkish Empire crumbled. The broke the Greek lines. Within The fez and the turban were re- Ottoman Empire and had Allies occupied Constantinople. 10 days, the Turks reached placed by the western hat, the dress of their American concluded a peace treaty Kemal Ataturk escaped to Asia Smyrna. The remnants of the the veil of the
on Allied ships. The were cued of revolt. The Greeks
But little soft spoken and and Greece at Lausanne. masters of the western third of Turks now moved against Con.
Turkey. To resist stantinople and Thrace, held by deaf Ismet still found fault with. When I reached Lausanne Asiatic
this point, the Allies Kemal Ataturk, but was no yes on my way from Washing- them, Kemal Pasha had scraped the Allies and the Greeks. many things. He was loyal to
together a makeshift army of At
an armistice con- man. He repeatedly criticised Mudania. the private life of Kemal, who ton to Ankara, the new deserters, marauders and Cir- proposed
cassinn "volunteers" who were ference. It met at Turkish capital in Asia in reality bandits, while he was a small village on the Asiatic was a unique combination of a const of the Sea of Marmora, military genius, inspired re- Ismet Pasha was the chief of former, chronic drunkard and Minor, I called upon Gen. trying to raise a regular army.
debauchee. In his moments of Ismet Pasha, then Turkish
ALL roads from Constan- the Turkish delegation.
leisure, Kemul was surrounded tinople the interior Minister of Foreign Affairs.
were watched to prevent Tur- AT THE SAME TIME, the by a handful of satellites who
man of law and order did were the companions of his or-.' serve Ril rights and forbid republications, and chief Turkish delegate kish patriots from going over to
to the Peace Conference. Kemal the rebal. One dark not overlook a detall of his job, gies. Ismet detested them and ragged. He ordered picked troops to they detested Ismet. He os- evening in 1919, 0
torn mil. Mudania to impress the Allied tentatiously ignored them, and THE UNITED STATES," looking man in
said Ismet with em- tary uniform; made his way generals with the looks and the his private life, which was that BEHIND the polite language phasis, "is probably the only out of heavily guarded Constan- spirit of the new Turkish Army, of a good father and husband,
-upon a long, weary trek through pressed uniform, looked as if he carefully away from Kemal's. we Orientals can deal without Asia Minor, through the Greek had just come from parade. ment has used to conceal its
larly candid remark by IH- anxiety as to the position of any fear whatever, Americans front line and devastated vil- Ismet had a military band play IN 1937, following a particu-
lages. Eventually he, reached twice a day in front of the are interested in sound business the GHQ of Kemal Pasha. One bullding where the armistice met about Ataturk's drunken- ness while attending to impor- Turkey and Iran there lies a
and not in political influence of Kemal's men took a look at conference met.
tant public business, Ataturk very firm determiuntion to
When the conference ended brusquely dismissed his most solidify our present firm position and conquest. That's the main the unkempt, ragged figure.
"Ismet Pasha!" he cried. Al in agreement, I asked Ismet to faithful collaborator from the lah has brought Your Excel- admit us newspapermen for the Premiership. Ismét lency to us! Elhamdulillah! signing and we were there when to private life. Later, Kemal the Allied generals, Ismet, and repeatedly expressed his regret Allah be praised!"
his chief of staff, filed into the and repentance of his act. But The man of law and order had small room. When it was over in Ismet's character there is joined the outlawed rebel. He Gen. Sir Charles Harrington, only one thing that is
either wholly or in part without previDUA arrangement.
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reason why we Turks feel ad-
miration and friendship for
America."
And now that we've made
AIR POWER IN THE FAR EAST
withdrew
even
stronger than his loyalty to friends his loyalty to his life's motto: "law and order." :
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
will no doubt continue to remain peace with England, what do
Britain's policy to our friend, there is sympathetic you think
ward Turkey is going to be?" realisation of her position as a
When Ataturk died in the fall buffer between ourselves and the he asked suddenly.
of 1938, the Turkish people un- enemy, or a gateway to attiek
"It is my Arm belief;"--I-said,
animously made little Ismet of for either side according to the "that the British are going to
the soft spoken word and the inclination of her Government. become sincere friends of Tur-
With 2,500 planes each tain, and the United States, to iron will the head of the State
and Army. We shall not force Turkey to key."
larger, speedier and better the "unsatisfactory" attitude of
His job is not yet completed. become a gateway for us; but "I agree," said Ismet slowly manned than the estimated 2,- French Indo-China, and to "sus-
thing is Bure. Like. we shall resist German pressure He seemed to refect for a mo- 000 Japan can muster-in the picious" moves by the United But one
many of his countrymen, Ismet tactics to achieve entry for her-ment, then added, "If Britain Far East. Britain, the United States.
got a 100 per cent picture of self with the greatest resolve, becomes our friend, we will pay States and the Dutch East In- "Though these reports in- German methods and policies in and Turkey should have learned back friendship with friendship. dies now have a safe edge over dicate Japanese uneasiness over 1914-18, when the Germans, co-operation] Japan in the air, declares the the world situation, the fact Turkey's allies in name, were from the unhappy examples Anglo - Turkish around them that if she is forced would be one of the greatest military correspondent of the that the newspapers are accom- feverishly engaged in carrying panying them with demands out their traditional Berlin- that Japan should take counter- Bagdad project. He is not like- from neutrality her whole future stabilising factors for world New York "World-Telegram."
The Democracies, he says, action gives the reports specially to have any illusions about --in honour and in material-peace.
have atymied Japan with air point," comments the New York the worth of Hitler's "new or
der." lies entirely with the victory of
ISMET INONU was born in power in the Pacific, thus allow- "Times." the Allies.
Smyrna, main port of Asining the United States to viointe The arrival of the Nazis at Minor, in 1884. His father was her time-honoured strategical ban against dividing her sen their very door caused a con- in the Turkish civil service. In force in the face of a potential siderable moderation in the 1904 he got his commission as enemy, Turks' support of the Allies but
an artillery lieutenant in the
Transfer from the Pacific to they have not turned their face army of the notorious Sultan, the Atlantic of sufficient vessels from us utterly. Adept Nazi Abdul the Damned. He played of the U.S. Fleet to permit the propaganda is attempting to un important part in the 80-occupation of Iceland and to called Young Turk revolution of establish a steel laneway to: force a wedge between Turkey 1908 which freed his country within 600 miles of Britain would not have been risked six and the Russo-British combina- from the tyrant. tion which backs up Turkey.
I-first saw him in 1917. Hef months ago.
It has been risked now, says The remembrance of the snubs was passing through Aleppo,
the biggest city of Syria, on his the correspondent, because of which Istanbul inflicted on Berlin in bolder days are not for- way from Constantinople to the new importance of air power Palestine to assume command and because the world's heaviest gotten; once the. Nazis have of an army corpa which was bombers are now at Pacific. forced the door of Turkey's facing Lord Allenby's troops stations. neutrality she can expect to be near the still extant biblical city
In addition, American airmen! come a more or less subject of Bir-Sheba.
are teaching the Chinese how to nation.
"Do you see that little fellow give the Japanese more than With regard to Iran, whose there?" asked a Turkish captain shadow boxing, while Russin king was confirmed in his carly who saw me off on my way to has about 1,000 planes near Damascus. "He's standing right Vladivostok, 641 miles from military command by Field there, talking to the station-Tokyo and only 577 miles from Marshal Ironside at a time master. That's Iamet, the man Yokohama. when Russia and Britain were of law and order, he's a sissy for and a pedant, but I know him politically struggling domination of the country, the well. He's one of the toughest position depends entirely on the fellows in the Turkish Army.". whim of Reza Sha who is an absolute ruler. In blitzkrieg in requiring the suppression of papers, led by the semi-officia days thero is no time to dilly. subversive German activities in "Lomel" news agency, are re- dally at playing off one interest Iran. Iran would, do well to porting from various places
alleged anti-Japanese movos against another and nowadays remember Mr Churchill's words: Otto Tollschus, New York Britain and Russia, the two "We have a right and the will to Times" correspondent in Tokyo, Powers in a position to exercise fight the Germans wherever we says the Press increasingly re- fers to encirclement" by Bri- Immediate-pressure, are at one find them."
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This and other factors lead to the ronewed complaints by Japanese Press of Britain's "policy of encirclement" in the Far East, and..Japanese news-
"I could dance with you like this forever, Marg
my
wind, ain't:so goo