Evening star., 1922-09-28

n HAT night about four months
ago at Angora. the capital OF
Mustapha Kemal Pasha's pro-
visional, war-born govern
ment, the atmosphere was surcharged
with a dramatic, slightly nervous un-
dercurrent
For things were not going well
with Turkey. 1t had fought and lost
a great war. 1t lay mutilated and
bleeding. The world at large was
beginning to forgive and forget Ger
many's and Austria's sins. but there
was no forgiving nor forgetting for
Turkey. The world at large had
ceased to talk about Belgian atroci-
ties. but was still talking about Ar
menian atrocities. Kismet. fate.
seemed against the Moslenl. Where
ever you looked from western China
to the hills Of Morocco. the crescent
was hurnbled in the dust before the
cross. There was France in Syria.
Great Britain in Mesoptamia. Italy in
Tripoli. There were soldiers of all
the allied nations sporting their mot
ley tunics In the ancient. quiet streets
of ConStantinople. There was no
money. no food, no credit. no hope. no
future.
Reported Enslnving Moslem.
And now the hereditary foe. the
Greek. with pro-German king, had
for some mysterious reason of Euro
pean diplomacy been appointed
Europe's delegate in Asia Minor. The
Greek was in control of Smyrna
where. to believe the stories told by
Mustapha Kemal Pasha's spies, to
believe furthermore NM. Pierre Lott
and Claude Farrere and many other
impartial French observers-he was
enslaving and massacring the Mos
lem and Jewish minorities, unchecked
by European statesmen and European
public opinion; the Greek was being
furnished an abundance of cash and
cannon by the British: the Greek
was advancing into the interior of
Asia Minor and marshaling his troops
to conquer first Angora and then Con-
stanttnople: the Greek had at his
beck and call all the propagandists,
therefore all the synpathies of the
occident. The Greek seemed sure to
win. The Greek said SO himself,
loudly and frequently.
Thus ran the gossip. the shivery
rumors and babblings in Angora's
bazaars and market places: and yet
the dinner party that same night at
Mustapha kemal Pashas residence
was very gay and very cosmopolitan.
OF Spanish-Jewish Descent.
There was the pasha himself. tall,
still young. good looking, narrow
hipped. wide shouldered, with gray.
rather sad eyes that spoke eloquently
of his Spanish-Jewish ancestry. for
kemal. like Enver Pasha, though an
orthodox Moslem, is descended from
those noble Spanish-Jewish families
ant choice between death. conversion
and exile, found asylum and happi-
ness in the sultan's domains-and
and fiat across the wrist; the hands
of an artist, a dreamer, yet, too, those
Of a doer. a man who knows how to
clout his dreams, into facts, clearly,
constructively, at times ruthlessly..
At Mustapha Kemal Pasha's right
sat very great British general who
had fought the Turks in the world
war, had been beaten and captured
by them. and had wound up by be-
coming their stout champion. Gen.
quished. of Kuet-el-Amara. There
were. side by side with Turkish Of
fcers of many races, osmanlis and
Kurds and Albanians and Druses and
Jews and a sprinkling of Syrian
Christians, in their somber. black
unifosms: NJ. Franklin -Bouillon of
the French commission. who has for
gotten more about the near east
than most people will ever learn:
Herr Won Berg and his colleagues OF
the German mission; a brace of un-
classified. tweed-clad Americans, and
q number of soviet officers and Of
fcials, all suave. well dressed and
remarkable linguists. led by NJ. Kara
khan. There was finally an Indian
Moslem. g. gentleman of ancient and
noble lineage, who had given up
high rank in the British Indian army
and high honors conferred upon him
by the King-Emperor George v. be-
cause he thought that Islam was in
danger. that Christianity had decided
to destroy the Moslem utterly, that 1t
was time for Jehad. holy war.
Abstains From Liquor.
At that dinner party the food was
simple; 1t was frugal; for 1t was
Turkish. There was no wine, Mus
tapha Kemal Pasha being an ortho-