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Ismet Inonu
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 spoken and even gentle His deaf-
in his manner.
soft
ness is famous in diplo- matic 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.
August 14, 1941.
Turkey's Little Man With a
He
UFS
With a Big Fist
along was worth an entire mo- Allied Commander-in-Chief in dern army. And he promptly. Constantinople n n'd later sat about making one.
.Governor of Gibraltar, rose and
Ismet became Kemal's right- held out his 'hand to Ismet who handman, his most trusted lleu- stood up and took the Briton's hand across the table. It was the first handshake between the
tenant.
First, Ismet insisted that there must be law and order in two, and the first between their nktions since. 1914. That the Turkish rebel army.
handelasp has not been loosened since.
FROM 1924 to 1927 and
In the following year, when the well equipped and brave Greek Army made its grent of- fensive In Asia Minor, Ismet, in again from 1930 until 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 surnanie a few years was in direct charge of modern later when oviry Turk was Turkey's reform programme. bound by law to adopt a family Harems and polygamy
abolished by law. Women were
name.
doesn't like Order"
the "New
By EDWARD J. BING
on
women
were
by
given an equal legal status to the men's, and got the vote. In July, 1923, the new
The Swiss civil law code and a Turkey had just risen from In 1918, Allenby smashed the On Aug. 26, 1922, the Turkish brand new criminal code on the 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 Greck lines. Within The fez and the turban were re- Ottoman Empire and had Allles occupied Constantinople: 10 days, the Turks reached placed by the western hat, concluded a peace treaty Kemal Ataturk escaped to Asia Smyrna. The remnants of the the veil of the
the dress of their American with Britain, France, Italy Minor and raised the standard heroic Greek Army were res and European sisters.
were cued
Allied ships. The 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 Asintié
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
1111 armistice
con man. He repeatedly criticised and Cir- proposed ton to Ankara, the new deserters, marauders
at Mudania, the private life of Kemal, who' cassian "volunteers" who were ference. It met Turkish capital in Asia in reality bandits, while he was a small village on the Asiatic was a unique combination of a coast of the Sea of Marmora, military genius, inspired re Minor, I called upon Gen. trying to raise a regular army. Ismet Pasha was the chief of former, chronic drunkard and Ismet Pasha, then Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs and chief Turkish delegate to the Peace Conference.
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leisure, Kemal was surrounded tinople to the interior were watched to prevent Tur- AT THE SAME TIME, the by a handful of satellites who kish patriots from going over to
man of law and order did were the companions of his or Kemal the rebal. One dark not overlook a detail of his job. gies. Ismet detested them and troops to they detested Ismet. Ho os- evening in 1919, a ragged- He ordered picked
torn mill- Mudania to impress the Allied tentatiously ignored them, and THE UNITED STATES," looking man in ‚TURKEY AND IRAN
said Ismet with em- tary uniform, made his way generals with the looks and the his private life, which was that phasis, "is probably the only out of heavily guarded Constan- spirit of the new Turkish Army, of a good father and husband, BEHIND the pollte language
upon a long, weary trek through pressed uniform, looked as if he carefully away from Kemal's.. ment has used to conceal Itse Orientals can deal without Asia Minor, through the Greek had just come from parade.
larly candid remark by Is- 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
Inges. Eventually he reached twice a day in front of the are interested in sound business the GHQ of Kemal Pasha, One building where the armistice met about Ataturk's drunken- Turkey, and Iran there lies a
ness, while attending to impor- tant public business, Ataturk very firm determination to and not in political influence of Kemal's men took a look at conference met.
When the conference ended brusquely dismissed his most solidify our present firm position and conquest. That's the main the unkempt, ragged figure.
reason why we Furks feel ad- "Ismet Pasha!" he cried. 'Al- in agreement, I asked Ismet to faithful collaborator from the in the Middle East and to avoid
withdrew miration and friendship for lah has brought Your Excel- admit us newspapermen for the premiership. Ismet a repetition of the unfortunate
lency to us! Elhamdulillah! signing and we were there when to private life. Later, Kemal the Allied generals, Ismet, and repeatedly expressed his regret affair of Iraq. With regard to
Allah be praised!"
his chief of staff, filed into the and repentance of his act. But And now that we've made Turkey who is our friend and
The man of law and order had small room. When it was over in Ismet's character there is will no doubt continue to remain peace with England, what do joined the outlawed rebel. He Gen. Sir Charles Harrington, only one thing that is our friend, there is sympathetic you think Britain's policy to- realisation of her position as a
ward Turkey is going to be?" -buffer between.ourselves.and the he asked suddenly. enemy, or a gateway to attack for either side according to the inclination of her Government. We shall not force Turkey to
America."
"It is my firm belief," I said, "that the British are going to become sincero friends of Tur-j key."
With
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each tain and the United States, to and better the "unsatisfactory" attitude of manned than the estimated 2,- French Indo-China, and to "sus-
even
stronger than his loyalty to friends his loyalty to his life's motto: "law and order."
When-Ataturk died in the fall. of 1938, the Turkish people un- animously made little Ismet of the soft spoken word and the
iron will the head of the State and Army,
His job is not yet completed.
become a gateway for us; but "I agree," said Ismet slowly. larger, speedier we shall resist German pressure He seemed to reflect for a mo-000 Japan can muster in the picious" moves by the United But one thing is sure. Like 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, from the unhappy examples Anglo- Turkish co-operation Japan in the air, declares the the world situation, the fact Turkey's allies in name, were 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 demanda out their traditional Berlin- from neutrality her whole future stabilising factors for world New York “World-Telegram."
that Japan should take counter Bagdad project. He is not like- --in honour and in material- | peace.
The Democracies, he says, action gives the reports specially to have any illusions about have stymied Japan with air point," comments the New York the worth of Hitler's "new or- lies entirely with tho victory of
der." ISMET INONU was born in power In the Pacific, thus allow. "Times."
INONU the Allies.
Smyrna, main port of Asia] ing the United States to violate Minor, in 1884. His father was her time-honoured strategical ban against dividing her aca in the Turkish civil service. In force in the face of a potential 1904 he got his commission as enemy. an artillery lieutenant in the army of the notorious Sultan, the Atlantic of sufficient vessels Abdul the Damned. He played of the US, Fleet to permit the an important part in the so- occupation of Iceland and to called Young Turk revolution of establish a steel laneway to 1908 which freed his country within 600 miles of Britain
would not have been risked six! from the tyrant,
on
Transfer from the Pacific to
A
The arrival of the Nazis at their very door caused a con- siderable moderation in the Turks' support of the Allies but they have not turned their face from us utterly. Adept Nazi propaganda is attempting to force a wedge betweon Turkey and the Russo-British combina- tion which backs up Turkey. I first saw him in 1917. Hej months ago; The remembrance of the snubs was passing through Aleppo, It has been risked now, soys the biggest city of Syrin, on his the correspondent, because of which Istanbul inflicted
way from Constantinople to the new importance of air power Berlin in bolder days are not for- Palestine to assume command and because the world's heaviest gotten; once the Nazis have an army corps which was bombers are now at Pacific forced the door of Turkey's facing Lord Allenby's troopa stations. neutrality she can expect to be- ncur the still extant biblical city
In addition, American airmen come more or less subject of Bir-Sheba.
ard 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 Russia king was confirmed in his early who saw me off on my way to his about 1,000 planes near Damascus, "He's standing right Vladivostok. 641 miles from military command by Field there, talking to the slation-Tokyo and only 577 miles from Marshal Ironside at a time | master. That's Ismet, the man Yokohama. when Russia and Britain were of law and order, he's a sissy,
This and other factors lead to politically struggling for and a pedant, but I know him!
the domination of the country, the well. He's one of the toughest renewed complaints by
Britain's position depends entirely on the fellows in the Turkish Army." Japanese Press of
"policy of encirclement" in thei whim of Reza Sha..who is an
Far East, and Japanese news absolute ruler. In blitzkrieg in requiring the suppression of papors, led by the semi-offeini days there is no time to dlly-subversive German activities in "Doniei" news agency, are re- dally at playing off one interest Iran. Iran would do well to porting from various places
alleged anti-Japanese moves. 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- 'immedista, presduro, dre at one, and them.”
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
$1941, Chery Tales, tab
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could dance with you like this, forever, Margo, only my
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