Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Constantine has apparently been tumbled out from Greece once more and probably Venizelos, supported by the rebellious navy, will return to power. The plaster-of-Paris Sultan at Constantinople is reported on the verge of abdication. But the grave question is whether a reorganized Greece can hold off the Turkish re-entry into Thrace if the Allies stand by their intention to hand it over to the Angora government...
...threat of a Turkish-Russian-German alliance which may grow out of the present situation in the Near East...
...decided to conduct a financial campaign to raise funds for the relief of children of all nationalities in Constantinople. Speeches, posters, and a committee of twenty-five workers were sufficiently effective to raise about $400. Some of this money will be used for food for a thousand Turkish refugee children who are living in old soldiers' barracks with no opportunity for schooling and insucient food to keep them healthy. Part of the money will be given to the International Committee in Constantinople which is feeding, as extensively as limited funds permit, the Russian refugees stranded in this city. The rest...
...crew and all the rest of our paid athletes (cf. "The Pink", of the paper for people who think) to earn their pin-money; advocate the presentation of Macbeth, with the goodies to participate as witches; deplore the lack of interest in the museums, and the great interest in Turkish Baths--but here is the climax upon which it is wise to cease...
...devotion to those native made, and have even boycotted the Prince of Wales. Added to this, the Mohammedans, under the leadership of the Ali brothers, have strengthened the strange alliance of Moslem and Hindu, and now seem to be using this power in an attempt to realize all the Turkish dreams...