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SMET, 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 soft spoken and even gentle in his manner. His deaf- 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 Big Fist

He

the

alone was worth an entire mo- Allied Commander-in-Chief in dern army. And he promptly Constantinople and later set about making one.

Govornor of Gibraltar, rose, and

Ismict became, Kemal's right- held out his hand to Ismet who handman, his most trusted lieu stood up and took the Briton's hand across the table. It was the first handshake between the two, and the first between their nations since 1914. That handclasp has not been loosened since.

.tennut.

First, Ismet insisted that there must be law and order in the Turkish rebel army.

In the following year, when the well equipped and brave · Greek Army made Its great of- FROM 1924 to 1927 and 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, Ismot 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 were

name.

doesn't "New

By EDWARD J. BING

like Order"

given an equal 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

adopted. the ruins of the one-time Turkish front in Palestine. The Western Army, led by Ismet, Western model were

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, women by concluded a peace treaty Kemal Ataturk escaped to Asia Smyrna. The remnants of the the veil of the

the dress of their American

Thongkong Telegraph.with Britain, France, Italy Minor and raised the standard heroic Greek Army were res- und European sisters.

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TURKEY AND IRAN

ment has used to conceal ita

on

the

Minor, I called upon Gen. trying to raise a regular army. Ismet Pasha was the chief of former, chronic

Ismet Pasha, then Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs and chief Turkish delegate

to the Peace Conference.

ALL ronds from Constan- tinople 10 the interior were watched to prevent Tur

kish patriots from going over to

tinople. The

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the Turkish delegation.

Greeks of revolt. The

were cued

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

Greeke, many things. He was loyal to them, Kemal Pasha had scraped the Allies and the

this point,

Allies Kemal Ataturk, but was no yes on my way from Washing together a makeshift army of At

con- man). He repentedly criticised ton to Ankara, the new deserters, marauders and Cir proposed an" årmistice

Cassian "volunteers" who were ference. It met at Mudania, the private life of Kemal, who 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- drunkard and debauchee. In his moments of leisure, Kemal was surrounded T THE SAME TIME, the by a handful of satellites who AT

man of law and order did were the companions of his or- dark not overlook a detail of his job, gies. Ismet detested them and Kemal the rebel. One

He ordered picked troops to they detested Ismet. He os. evening, in 1919, ก ragged- «THE UNITED STATES," looking mun

in torn mili- Mudania to impress the Allied tentatiously ignored them, and "THE

said Ismet with em- tary uniform, made his way generals with the looks and the his private life, which was that soldier entered Every, man, in his carefully moved in a world which he kopt 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, WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & Co., Ltd. which His Majesty's Govern- Power in the world with which upon a long, weary trek through pressed uniform, looked as if he carefully away from Kemal's.

wo 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-

lages. Eventually he reached twice a day in front of the Turkey and Iran there lies a

are interested in sound business the GHQ of Kemal Pasha. One building where the armistice met about Ataturk's drunken. ness' while attending to impor- and not in political influence of Kemal's men took a look at conference met.

tant public business, Ataturk very firm determination to

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 Turks feel ad- "Ismet Fasha!" he cried. Al- in agreement, I asked Ismet to faithful collaborator from the in the Middle East and to avoid

miration and friendship for lah has brought Your Excel- admit us newspapermen for the Premiership. Ismet withdrew a repetition of the unfortunate

leney to ust Flhamdulillah! signing and we were there when to private life. Later, Kemal the Allied generals, Ismet, and repeatedly expressed his regret Allah be praised!" affair of Iraq. With regard to

his chief of staff, filed into the and repentance of his act. But 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 He Cen. Sir Charles Harrington, only one thing that is even will no doubt continue to remain

joined the outlawed rebel. our friend, there is sympathetic realisation of her position as a buffer between ourselves and the enemy, or a gateway to attack for either side according to the inclination of her Government. We shall not force Turkey to key." become a gateway for us; but "I agree," said Ismet slowly. 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

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And now that we've made peace with England, what do you think Britain's policy to- ward Turkey is going to be?" he asked suddenly.

"It is my firm belief;"~I~sald;} "that the British are going to become sincere friends of Tur-

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With 2,500 planes - each tain and the United States, to

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better the "unsatisfactory" attitude of manned than the estimated 2,- French Indo-China, and to "sus-

stronger than his loyalty to friends his loyalty to his life's motto: "law and order,"

When Ataturk died in the fall of 1988, 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.

many of his countrynien, 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 1014-18, 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 New York "World-Telegram." panying them with demands out their traditional Berlin- from neutrality her whole future stabilising factors for world

that Japan should take counter- Bagdad project, Ile is not like- -in honour and in material-

The Democracies, he says, action gives the reports specially to have any illusions about pence.

have stymied Japan with air point," comments the New York the worth of Hitler's "new or- lies entirely with the victory of

der." the Allies.

ISMET INONU was born in power in the Pacific, thus allow "Times."

Smyrna, main port of Asia ing the United States to violate Minor, in 1884. His father was hur time-honoured strategical in the Turkish civil service. In force, in the face of a potential ban against dividing her sea

1904 he got his commission as enemy.

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 between Turkey and the Russo-British combinn- tion which backs up Turkey.

It has been risked now, saya The remembrance of the snubs

the biggest city of Syria, on his the correspondent, because of which Istanbul inflicted on

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 of an army corps 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 come a more or less subject of Bir-Sheba. nation.

an artillery lieutenant in the Transfer from the Pacific to army of the notorious Sultan, the Atlantic of aufficient vessels Abdul the Damned. He played of the U.S. Fleet to permit the an important part in the 80-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 from the tyrant.

would not have been risked six

With regard to Iran, whose king was confirmed in his early

I first saw him in 1917. Hej months ago. was passing through Aleppo,

In addition, American airmen are tenching the Chinese how to "Do you see that little fellow give the Japanese more than there?" asked a Turkish captain shadow boxing, while Russia. who saw me off. on my way to has about 1,000 planes near Damascus. "He's standing right Vladivostok, 641 miles from Co., Ltd. military command by Field there, talking to the station-Tokyo and only 577 miles from

Marshal Ironside at 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 domination of the country, the well. He's one of the toughest renewed complaints by the Britain's Co. Ltd. position depends entirely on the follows in the Turkish Army." Japanese Press of

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