The Washington times., 1923-04-14
D ANNUNz|O I D
JOIN TURKISH 1
FORCES
Poet Says Mohammedan Re-
vivaI viii Not Destroy, and
May Save Christian Faith.
By LOUISE BRYANT,
international News Service.
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News Service.
GARDONE, RIVERA, italy, April
IA. - There Is. no menace in the
great Mohammedan revival which
has sprung to life in the near
East under Mustapha KeInal Pasha,
in the opinion of Gabrielle DAN
nunzio, poet-warrior and former
dictator of Fiume He made this
statement to me today as we
walked in the garden of his beauti-
full villa.
1.-THE revival in the east win not
destroy western civilization, but it
may even save It,, exclaimed Dan
nunzto emphatically.
This extraordinary man Of liter.
ature, war and romance is a
great admirer of the Turks. Re-.
Gently the Turkish national as
sembly conferred upon him the
rank OF "Pasha," which Is eQuiva-
lent to the rank of general in the
Turkish army.
book to be called 1.-THE Renaissance
Of Islam," which will go so far
as to reinterpret parts of Koran
the Mohammedan Bible.
Will Fly to Turkey.
.D'Annunzio said he was prepared
to aid the Kemalists with any
means in his power. Late in the
summer he intends to fly to Con-.
stantinople to inspect and perhaps
help train Turkish troops.
In order to keep in closest posi-.
BILE touch with Angora, D'Annunzio
Is having a. private wireless plant
constructed upon the grounds of
RfG
engaged upon this task, erecting q
tower for the sending and re.
cetving apparatus.
D'Annunzio will send two picked
officers from his Fiume legion to
Angora within a few days to act
as his personal representatives in
the Turkish national assembly.
The warTior-poet has just com.
pleted new book called "Adven-
ture without Adventure and has
been celebrating the achievement by
entertaining several young writer's
and proteges at his villa. During
the festivities a sensation was
created by the arrival OF William
C. Bullitt, of Philadelphia.
D'Annunzio recognized the Amer.
lean, rushed forward and EN-.
braced him. Taking from the lapel
Of his coat his own Arditta
decoration, D'AnnunziO pinned It
upon the lapel Of the Americans
coat, exclaiming meanwhile:
II decorate you for high moral
courage at Paris when no one dared
speak against Woodrow Wilson,"
CThe Italian writer referred to an
incident during the peace confer.
ence when Bullitt went upon a mis-
sion Of investigation In Soviet Rus
STA. Later, he claimed, his report
was rejected. Bullitt at the time
had a great deal to say upon the
subject.)
Full Of Life at Sixty-twO.
D'Annunzio explained the action of
the. Angora assembly in honoring him
as single link in the steadily grow
ing friendship between himself and
the Turks. This friendship, he
said, dates back to war days when
a number of Turkish prisoners fell
into his hands. D'Annunzio treated
them kindly and they and their
fellow countrymen appreciated It,
Despite his sixty-two years
D'Annunzio is in good health.
ct have never been so full of
life," he said. 81 feel as If will
write books now which will be
much better than anything I ever
did before. / feel that the old
books will be forgotten in the glory
OF the new. When I fell from a
window of my home several months
ago, cracked my head. But In.
stead Of killing me, that accident
seems to have given me new life
and vigor."