Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-28
ALL EAST ADMITS
MUSTk9HA KEMAL
IS GREAT GENERAL
Leader Of Turkish Army
Declared to Be More Pow
crrul Than Sultan.
REFUSES TO TALK PEACE
UNTIL TERMS ARE MET
Declares Would Be Folly to
Yield Now, Turning Coun-
try Over to Greeks.
lHy Associated Press. |

BY Associated Prcssl
HNiOisA. Aug. 27.-Mustapha
Renal Pasha. head of tho National
ist army and virtual dictator OF
turkey In Asia. who Is Gghtinc the
creeks. speaks French and German
nnentiy and looks one over with
hceh. gray eyes. the right one o..
which is marred b. IL east.
The Greek offensive was just be-
ginning when the correspondent
found him at his pretty villa on the
hills n mile distant from Angora. yet
he discussed IL coldly az though IL
might affect some other country
than his own.
Name Is Well Known.
Mustapha Kemal's name Is known
throughout the East. where he is far
more powerful than the Sultan
tooped up in his palace at Constau-
tinop.c under the guns Of the allied
warships in the Bosporus. Ecvc.y
child in tho East knows his name.
both soldier ana politician. thosc IA
4 rniiiar with the American struggle
for liberty. frequently compare him
10 preat leaders in American his
tor
iJ his moments or leisure, his
IN ,.sh comrades say ne has "a RAJ.
i
81 ,s ana something OF the sense
loi lumor ana Innocent fun charac-
ter. tic OF the Turks. but these are
not often displayed in the presence
az t;rangcrs. Ills atcrncr qualities
WEI SHOWN in his resistance To and
cor Hpt Tor the Germans during the
20 war, ana since the armisticc.
ia 8 Organization Of resistance TO
al peace terms and az the Greek
ar
tie moment tho correspondent
NAY aim. he had just refused TO meet
ia, British General Harrington Ia
tai. peace terms. as he is convinced
ihal such conferences cannot now
have any practica! result.
30 Not ReaiIxe Enrnestness.
'rhey won't realize that we are in
earnest, that we are speaking tho
pla in truth. when we say We will
make peace only on our published
terms" he commented. ITO yield
now means turning over my country
fate Tar more bitter than that OF the
IIiunsarians The only way is to
g. lrnt on for iudcpcndcnce.'
'.Will the Nationalist movement;
3.uiylvcg" ne said. slowly repeating
ihs question o! the correspondent
''rhat Is "a question which interests
no, only ourselves. hut is u VIA!
! importauce To ,hc peace OF Europe
and to tho United States and other
countries wishing to rc-csia hlisi q
prosperous world 1T TO live in. Wh;
don't the allies see thisH Haven't
ihey learned anything since the great
war ended?
From AN exterior point of view.
we NationalIsts are trying 20 pre-
vent the Bulkaniz!nS OF Turkey. pre-
vent our house being divided aEainat
Itself. prevent the allies from estab-
Ilishing zones OF influence leading TO
future quarrcls among themselves.
While out of poli;eneSs nc didn't
gay so. il les known ne feels the
Americans should understand and
| hcip diplUmatically. ut least lie
asked for news from the outside
world, for the trend OF opinion as TO
commercial stag lation.
| lie objected TO the French point OF
.i.w that the Turkish and Near Fast
Questions will be solved only when
i lis that Of Russia.
Question Is Important.
ours Is question in itself he
said land very important one.
From the point Of view OF intcrna-
tIDnIl law ana OTucT. thihh IL IL ''u-
mitted that the destruction of say
IN. Austrian Empire. has cntailcd in
solvable problems. Have every state
| in the United states warning with its
neighbors, and this will give you
conception OF Europe today.
..Why destroy the fabric that holds
,ne Near East together? No political
ARRANGEMENT is perfect. but this was
The best to be found. II is my honest
bclicf that prc-war Turkey is still
The only solution. with the Turks
even made responsible, as before, Tor
thc neutrality Of the Straits We
have given uo to the British and~the
] french Mcsopotamia and Syria. and
the pcoples there must work out their
national destinics as they sec fit. But
where the Turk population is in ma
;ority we should control and We on
pect to-. ;, :,
&C. the allies and the Greeks who con-
time the war II Is running all OF
us hut our ruin would be immediate
II wc accepted their terms. When we
rave gotten rid of the Greeks, we
oil, continue our sincere effort TO
rccr going an honest national gov
o,nmcnt. For ono thing, we will
Lean up Constantinople. morally.
1,urinr the great war and since the
any occupation 1t has become dis
rr;ce to civilization. place that
,ni,-ht. well be burned so ashes as IL