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...cried, "the old Imperial Germany was a state for which we were proud to fight?a state with glorious traditions. The second Reich in which we now are living is predicated on democracy and pacifism. We propose to make the third Reich one of healthy and glorious nationalism?a state for the people, and shall put an end to the process of national disintegration. We shall accomplish this with legal and constitutional means, and shall mold our state into that form which we deem necessary...
...this point, with the Opposition created, all seemed ripe for the crisis, but canny Fethi Bey decided to play super-safe. Not wishing to wake up some morning on a gibbet by mistake, the Leader of the Opposition harangued Parliament, proposed that the Deputies elect Mustafa Kemal Pasha-"our Glorious Ghazi, our Victorious One"-to be president of Turkey for life. (His second four-year term expires...
...rush to this extreme. Having heard that in real republics, during a real crisis the President "sends for and consults the leaders of the Opposition," Kemal sent for and consulted Fethi. Next day short, hard-eyed General Ismet, who must have spent a nervous night wondering whether the Glorious Ghazi intended to doublecross him, was summoned to the Presidential Palace...
Tramp, tramp, clump, clump?pure chance brought a marching column of revolutionary troops abreast of the wedding whoopee. Tousled and valiant, bridegroom and bride were standing off their tipsy tormentors. To one hilarious wedding guest, possessor of a seven-shot pistol, the glorious moment clearly demanded noise. Into the air he blazed what sounded like a fusillade?bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang...
...Christmas Day, because he did "not believe in Christmas relaxation, in war"; used "atrocity" propaganda and blood-and-thunder speeches ad lib to increase his troops' morale. Yet he can take stock thus of the ultimate end of discipline, of all soldierly training: "The net result of the barren, glorious bloody battle of Thiepval is that over 700 men of the West Belfast battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles prove their ability to subordinate matter to mind. Intellectual discipline had triumphed...