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Squiggle, loop, scratch went the fountain pen of a swart little Dictator-King Ahmed Zogu, last week, signing out the old Islamic law of Albania, signing in a new civil code based on the Swiss.*
The Islamic-Nationalist riots, recently suppressed in Java (TIME, Nov. 22) burst out again last week in Sumatra. Dutch troops of the Netherlandic East Indies forces arrested 550 rioters at Siloengkang, shot 100. As usual the Dutch press, ignorantly or maliciously, referred to the malcontents as "Communists."
First to feel the prickle of a noose was Dr. Nazim Pasha, founder of the Young Turk movement which overthrew "Abdul the Damned" (Abd-ul-Hamid II) in 1909, and dictated the government of Turkey as a Pan-Islamic oligarchy throughout the World War.
During the war the dissolute youthful Emperor Lij Yaser committed the disastrous dual stupidities of embracing the Islamic faith and the Germano-Turkish cause. Vexed, a majority of the feudal chieftains of Abyssinia, stout Christians according to their somewhat pagan lights, supported a successful pro-Christian, pro-Ally revolution. Prince...
"The Mosul Question" is, as everyone knows, the question of what is to be done with some 35,000 square miles of territory bounded by Turkey, Persia, the British protected Kingdom of Irak, and the French mandated region of Syria. The Kemalist Government of Turkey wants the territory as a...