New Britain herald., 1921-08-18
WOMAN NOVELIST IN
 ROLE OF IDEALIST
Heart in America But Soul Is au.: With Turkey

Angera, Turkey, Aug. 18.-Dressed In black riding suit and astride an Arab mare, Halida Hanum. tho Turk leader, greeted The Associated Press correspondent by the roadside outside of Ansora. waving her hand in rec ognitlon as the automobile approach ca after crossing innumerable noun tains and rivera from Ineboli, the contraband port on tho Black Sea.
 Halide invited the correspondent to her home, an Anatolian farmhouse in . nearby gorge. She said she had rid den horseback frequently since she escaped from Constantinople in March, 1920. riding the entire dis tanco to Angora on her horse.
 My mind and soul are here but my heart is in America with my boys, Ala and Hassan. in college at Urbana, ul-, said the woman who has made herself famous, not only al a novel, st but by espousing the cause headed by Renal Pasha who is fighting the GreekA
 s She spoke of the war with the Greeks and of the difficulty in mak- Ing peace with the allies.
 Time is our great and best ally" she said We want peace, and we lre willing to fight forever for it. It s costly for us but it is the only way. We must havo our independence; pol hical. geographic and economic" Tho correspondent reminded her that these were vague terms used by The Nationalista since tho Turkish srmistice.
 Tt may seem monotonoua but we keep right on saying and thinking the Iame things" she replied. When we first said them, we were ridiculed oy some oi our own people, while the Z Allies went on violating tho ar1nistice \ serms. We have made progress dur ]. ng the past two years. and finally we will win. Haven't the Alliea go: S enough out of us by taking Mesopota- y mia and Syria? Al for tho Greeks. < liter they have spent all their money md indebted their nation to keep up < large army, they will be obliged to return home.
 After wo have disposed of the Greeks then the Allies will have to irop the Capitulations. which origin < lily were privileges extended to for sign subjects centuries ago by us so we wouldn't need to interfere in their lffairs Gradually, the foreign na- Z ions nave made of these capitula- ion. an encroachment on out sover- dignity.
 T understand the Allies have about abandoned their pretensions to zones ,f inf1ucntie Anyway, we won't have 4 hem. as such zones mean infring- nent on our political liberty. Tn such zones the Allies would exploit us, not E bring us economic help. The Allies gre ruined and need to spend their money at home. It ia better business Tor us to havo free trade competition giving the Americans the Swiss, or anybody, fair chance to trade with 4s91S 75
 We can't give up Constantinople That city is the continuation of our civilization. It represents our art, pur beauty our culture. It is at once pur Venice and our New York.
 There's peasant fairy talo that the Devil, once upon a time, finding The peoples of the earth at peace called counci! ot tho under Devilc when 1t was decided to reform the sarth so as to make the straits (o1 Dardenelles) and there pitch, ir place of rare beauty. tho fair city to- lay called Consta ntinople, and tha sver since nations have fought tc possess the strait1 and the city. Per naps, with all tho new mischief ther' . in the world, the nations may leav' us to make peace with the Devil.
 '"The British want the control Q :ha straits and tho city. but the wors .hey can do is to blockade us. and w gan live on our own food, mako ou swn clothes until they are tired. Wh, should the British have such control Surely no one wants the Greeks o sho French there either"
 Regarding Bolshevik relations. sh aid: 'we do not want any militar help nor Bolsheviki among us, or an strangers for political reasons.
 '"The sum total of our nationalist k to tell the truth. and accept n
 middle measures. The truth ia tn pnly thing that counts. Wo ar sither right or wrong and if righ we will win. and Turkey will be ire
 md useful nation. We want to liv
 our own way, educate our people
 promote commerce and the arts. bull roads and railways, and cultivate ou { 3elds. Any nation whose prosperit sM based on agriculture may survive \ Will tho world let us? If not we wi
 light to- the last man and the las
 woman"