The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-22
RENAL PRAISED
BY AMERICAN
TRAVELLER
Former v. S. Army Officer
Gains High Opinion of
MaIigned Turk.

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NEW YORK, March 22.-The
Turk is not so dark as he is
painted. in the opinion of Col.
Cushman A. Rice, wealthy globe
trotter, Cuban plantation owner
and former aviation officer in the
American Experition2ry Forces.
| Colonel Rice IL now in New York,
having just returned from a long
foreign trip which took him through
| Spain, Northern Africa, Turkey,
Bulgaria. Hungary and Poland.
During his five months residence
in Turkey he had long converse,
tons with Mustapha Renal Pasha,
commander-in-chief OF the Turkish
army. which gave him q friendly
feeling toward the Turkish cause.
Praises Turkish Chief.
Colonel Rice regards Renal as
one or the big military figures who
have emerged since the war, but
he believes that Kemal is not Of
q type that will succeed in peace.
time politics. He is too aggres.
sively direct and not sufficiently
versed In the art of indirect ap.
proach.
Colonel Rice is emphatic in his
praise Of the American Commits
sloner in Turkey, Admiral Mark
Bristol.
lie has the welI-earned reputa.
tion, said Colonel Rice, ''of being
absolutely unprecedented and fair.
Also. he has about him one Of the
most splendid STATS, both naval
ana civilian, that have ever met.
Our country is well represented In
Turkey.
Il know Turkey and the Turks
fairly well, having been in Turkey
several times for long periods.
Personally like the Turk. I have
found him to be q friendly disposed
ings.
Turks UnduIy Abused.
7 think the time has come when
IN common honesty the papers of
our country should stop heading
their articles about the Turk with
sucn captions as the terrible, the
bloody. the unspeakabie and TN.
principled Turk
Has history any more brilIia Mt
come back than that of te Turk.
ish Nationals, with their country
entireiy defeated. their capital held
Dy the allied forces. with the Greek
army occupying Smyrna and ad.
vancing into the interior. without
resources or money and practically
no supplies? Still! led by a great
nero. RENAL Pasha, the liberty.
loving Turk started to defend his
country. This. despite the fart
that the old Sultan Of Turkey. IN.
der the control of the allied ma.
tons, had him and his followers
declared outlaws ana a price was
placed on his head. The fact that
this handful OF patriots stemmed
the advance Of the well-euuipped
Greek army for several years and
finally defeated them is a tribute
to the military leadership Of the
Turkish patriot.
To me, as an American brought
up In reverence and admiration OF
our Washington and his heroic sol
diers in their self-sacrificing strur.
giles for the liberty that made our
country what 1t is now. 1t seems
that all Americans should feel that
same admiration for the Turkish
feel.
Led by Modern Turks.
The National army is headed by
nodernized Turks, and do NOT
mink thaC their leaders are in any
way reactionary.
Personally do not think that
the present-day Turkish situation
ls a religious one. at ALL History
shows that the Turk has been par.
ticularly tolerant in. religious mat.
ters. Three hundred years ago.
when the Jews were expelled from
Spain, 1t was In Turkey that they
found their asylum"
One Of Colonel Rice's picturesque
possessions is passport with sixty.
seven vises. There are so many
official seals, stamp and signatures
that the original text of the docu.
ment is nearly obscured. He car.
ried 1t with him throughout his
long foreign journey.