Evening star., 1923-03-21
Proposed New Ottoman Ambassador
Held to Be Unwise Choice for Post

domestic affairs of a country which
is Jealous of its sovereign rights
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These utterances, which were made
IN London in November last, furnish
sufficient evidence OF the fact that
Rechad Bey possesses neither the tact
nor yet the diplomacy needed to dis
cuss American interests in Turkey
and affecting Turkey with either
President Harding or Secretary
Hughes. Having given such public
utterance of his derogatory opinions
about the government of the United
States and about those to whom the
American nation has COntided the dl-
rection of its deStinicS. he can I
scarcely expect to be welcomed at
Washington as persona grata or TO
find him self in any kind Of amIcdble
/ and courteous communion with those
members of the United States gov
ernment with whom he VIII be CdIteu
upon to deal.
In one word, Rechad Bey seems TO
be a Turkish diplomat of the same
stripe as Rustem Pasha of unSavory
memory, who, toward the close of
1914, was compelled to take his de
parture from Washington on account
of the outrageous interviews which
he published in the press, in which
he contended that the Christian mi
norities in Turkey were infinitely
better treated than the colored popu-
lation in the United States and the
Philippines under the American flag.
and when summoned to the White
House to give an explanation Of his
utterances and of his conduct TO
President Wilson he impudently ad-
hered to his statements and gave
Woodrow Wilson to understand thar
both he and his government would do
~ ,Fa,-
cures" in the Philippines and the
horrible lynchings and massacres of
blacks which occur daily in the
United States" before Offering any ad-
vice to Turkey or presuming to in
terfere there in behalf of the Arme-
Minor, who are suffering, mot as
Christians, but as political agitators
engaged in undermining the sover-
eighty of the Ottoman empire
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It will be seen from this that Rus
tenn Bey employed in his remarks TO
President Wilson and in his inter
views in the American press almost
the same arguments and even the
very same phrases as those employed
by Rechad Bey in his interview of
last November about the present
| administration at Washington-that
Rechad Bey who, through his tact-'
|! lessness and through his ignorance
| of the veriest rudimentS of dlplo-
macy. did so much to envenom the
| situation between Great Britain ana
Turkey. The Turks are not in-
!tractable. Ismet Pasha- the Turkish
plenipotentiary at Lausanne, is man
| of understanding, for when, on his
return from Lausanne. he was asked by
the national assembly at Angora to
obtain certain guarantees from ths
English commander lin chief in Tus-
key, Gen. Sir Charles Harrington, he
replied: "I have Gen. Harringt"t's
word: that is sufficient for all Dur-
poses +" If Ismet Pasha could not
: complete the negotiations at Lau-
same 1t was solely because 1t was
necessary for him to return 10 An
CORA to persuade the intranslgent
minority of the national Assembly
there to accept his views.
| AS for Rustem, now Aneora envoy
| to Rome, he is a renegade Pole of the
name of Alfred Blinski, who, expel-
| led from the dual empire for dishon-
! esty, sought refuge in Egypt, where
jhe was expelled as a mischief-maktng
Journalist of the financial order by
Lord Kitchener, and then, making his
way to Constantinople, abJured Chris
| tianity for Islam in order to become
Turkish ambassador to the United
States.