Rauf Beg spent a few days in C'ple and gave me a very interesting account of it. All reports we have confirm what he says, namely that there is a very strong current against Mustafa Kamal, not least in the army. He has made himself a dictator, dismissed all rival generals, many of them much beloved by the army, and the C'ple newspapers are strongly attaching the complete subservience to the Ministers and the Assembly to him. No one believes he will last 6 months and I think there will be years of confusion and constant change of govt before Turkey settles down. I very much doubt whether he would succeed, however.
Turkey is war weary.
Rauf says the Ministers are effete - they haven't the least idea of their job and the Finance Minister doesn't understand the elements of finance. On Friday I dined for once with myself - on Saturday with Ken Cornwallis, Marie had arrived that morning and the house was a confusion of boxes. It ought to have been a confusion by one box more, for one has been left in the customs house at Bombay and I need not tell you it contains all my best possessions. However Aurelia writes to me that they hope to recover it. It wasn't really Marie's fault but that of the Mespers agent who undertook to see everything through the Customs.