The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-09-26
Dinner With Mustapha KemaL Pasha
AcEIN1ED ABDULAH

Great Britain's subsequent advance
at bay for many weary months, to
delay the British conquest of Pales-
tine until his army had no munitions
left, no eirplanes, no medicines. not
as much as a spare bandage or
pair OF shoes. while all the world was
pouring supplies into the British
war Golfers
Came defeat; peace; hopelessness;
despair; and all Europe Hopping
Hopping about the mutilated Otto
man corpse like vultures to the reek
of carrion.
The Sick Man of Europe was dead.
There was no doubt OF It, The I'm
speakable Turk had spoken his last
word. Very soon the Greeks would
celebrate high mass in the mosque OF
Santa Sophia of Constantinople.
kyrie Eleisonl
Small Cloud Appears
Then, almost overnight, cloud on
the near eastern horizon, no bigger
than mant breath; a faint rumor;
a thin, anaemic trickling of news
out of Asia Minor; a name mentioned
by occasional globe-trotting news
paper correspondents:
Mutapha Renal Pasha 1t seemed
that he was a patriot. 1t seemed that
ne was speaking OF defylng Greece
and Greece's British hackers. 1t
seemed that he mentioned war and a
coed.
And the world laughed. 1t was de-
hcious, international Jest. It was the
very cream of the ject. Fight? And
now was he going to fight since he
had no army, no money, no munitions,
no ships?
The world forget that he had three
qualities: An iron will to succeed. a
tremendous cleanliness of purpose
and patriotism. The world forgot
that he had yet fourth quality. an
oVerWhelming, orthodox, almost
childlike faith in his God!
Too, there was in his soul a cer-
tain bitterness to sharpen and poison
the dagger of his resolution. Let us
put 1t In his own words; words which
he used at that time to an English
friend of his:
You have never had a decent word
for Turkey. You have always lied
about us, and believed your own lies.
Let me point out just one instance:
The Young Turk revolution, when we
progressives pulled Abdul Hands
teeth. YOU the apostles of freedom
and constitutional government and
half dozen other assorted fetishes
allowed Austria, your trusted stew
ard of other peoples property since
the Berlin Congress of Thieves, to
steal this property. belonging to Tur-
key, the fertile provinces of Bosnia
and Herzegovina. You looked on
calmly while the Bulgar mountebank
annexed Turkish territory in time OF
peace. You passed resolutions. full
OF blatant hypocrisies and lies. but
you never raised a finger in our be-
/ half. in behalf of that Justice and
humanity which you proudly claim
as your birthright You united in
your endeavors to establish an inde-
pendent and constitutionally gov
erned Rumania, a free Servia a mod
ern Greece and Bulgaria. and, more
recently, an autonomous Macedonia.
under the pretext that Turkey,
being controlled with an iron rod by
a despotio Sultan and an intolerably
exalted Sheykh ul-Islam. was not fit
to govern Christian races. But you
obstructed Moslem Turkeys efforts
, to introduce and enforce the very
principles of liberty and popular gov
eminent which In former years you
| had been advocating as n sine qua
non in the administration of your
| Christian proteges We have suf-
fered long enough a series of DELHI
crate moral insults and material in
| 1uries at the hands of selfish, can't
ing, lying Europe and we are still
capable of tremendous energies when
Islam is in danger. We are going to
fight. How7"
Kemal Pasha smiled
my friend" he added, "how did
Ireland fight7 With tanks and air.
planes? No. mol Mostly with pa
triots. ouarrelsome, are we? No
more than the Irish. We simply wish
to be left alone in our own house.
Atrocities? Assassinations OF minor
tiles, racial or religious2 Why, my
dear sir. the proof of the pudding is
in the eating. The Christians are
still numerically in the majority in
Turkey. On the other hand, where
are the Arabs and Jews of Spain2
Where are the Indians of the two
Americas? Where are the South sea
islanders?"
| Now, two years after this CONVEX
sation, he was tho host at his Angora
residence.
He picked up the sugary Greek god
whom he had decapitated and nibbled
off one ear.
Then he made q wry face and
turned to General Townsend:
81 don't like tho taste of it." he
said. ut is too sweetT
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