The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12
KEMAL|STS WILL. TRY ID SOLVE NEAR. EASTERN PROBLEMS.
This Is the Impression of AnI A. P. Correspondent Who Travelled Many Miles
 By Land and Sea
By Associated Press

Angora, Asia Minor, September II. The Kemalist government, with the aid of its army, is determined to solve the near eastern problems itself, fact to which the allied west ern powers are said to be blind. This Is the chief impression which the Associated Press correspondent received after trip of hundreds of miles by sea and land from effete. hefuddled Constantinople to the clear atmosphere of this little city, situ- ated on wide plateau, where the nationalists have pitched their polit- ical tents.
 The stranger, putting his foot. on the soil of Nationalist Anatolia, feels new air. It is not a privilege ex- tended to all and sundry, but once good faith has been established. the doors of primitive hospitality are opened wide, and the stranger may do what he will or go where he pleases.
 Revisiting the interior after two years, when the nationalist govern mcnt had just received it's baptism by the declaration of rights of the Turkish people at Sivas, the corre- spondent found the same gray, be- lowered, treeless distances, the same toiling peasants. the same dull vil- lages and towns. But the air Is charged with new purpose.
 Interviewed by Correspondent
 The correspondent saw Mustapha Renal Pasha, Halide Hanum, the woman nationalist leader, and other personalities with whom he talked at length two years ago. Today they make the same declarations as then; they are fighting for their homeland and for national existence; they will have nothing more and nothing less.
 They are also close students of American history; they compare their war to Americas struggle for inde- pendence. What boots poverty or ill-clad soldiery if the heart be right and the cause be just?" they ask.
 The correspondent put the question bluntly to Mustapha Kemal, to Yus- suf Renal Bey, his minister for for eign affairs and to other leaders: Are you not unsportsmanlike to or ganize yourselves for the purpose of beating just peace after you were whipped in the great war;"
 The answer came: NO; we have given up Syria and Mesopotamia. We have left these former Ottoman coun- tries to their own destinies. What further penalty should we pay for our defeat?"
 It is the intention of the nation alist Turks to live or die on the is- sue of national independence and the integrity of the soil inhabited by Turks with no interference from for eigners.
 As regards bolshevism. it is ap- parent that the Turks are securing arms and certain amount of as- sistance from that direction; yet they are as afraid of bolshevik contact as western Europe is. The Turks do not desire any political foreign control from any direction.
 The intention is to drive out the Greeks and then to retake Constan- tinople, make it their commercial capital and begin rebuilding Turkey on the basis of good roads, education and export trade.
 Today they are refusing to issue nationalist paper money for fear Of debasing the old currency.
 The Turks declare that the nation- aiist movement, which has historical ly been going on for half century, but has been mothered by the greed of sultans and pashas, is destined to live