Evening star., 1923-09-01
BY THE MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoY


Washington's foreign diplomatic
corps is about to receive some nota-
BILE additions. Seifullah Pasha Yusri,
heretofore undersecretary of state for
foreign affairs at Cairo. and desig
mated for the post of minister pleni-
potentiary of Egypt to the United
States, was brought up to a great
extent in England, is an enthusiast site
and adept polo player and has been
married, for the past eight years. to
King Fuad's niece, Princess Zeinab,
now tWenty-siX years of age, who, as
such. enjoys the predicate of high
ness" but not of royal highness.''
She is the daughter of the king s
younger brother, Prince Ibrahim
Hilmi, who was educated at the Royal
Military Academy of Woolwich and
who has spent the greater part of his
life abroad. Consequently she is the
granddaughter of old Khedive IsmaiI.
under whose eventful reign the Suez
canal was completed and inaugurated
and who finally, by reason of his ex-
travagance and maladministration,
was deposed by his suzerain. the late
Sultan Abdul Hamed of Turkey, at
the instance of Great Britain, France,
Germany and Russia. The princess
is credited with having inherited a
fair share of her amazing old grand
fathers sparkling wit and quickness
of repartee.
And the new minister plenipoten-
tiary of Turkey at Washington is no
other than Adnan Bey, the governor
and Ottoman high commissioner of
Constantinople, who was assigned by
the Angora national assembly, after
the flight of Sultan Mehmed VI, to
the difficult task of maintaining Turk
ish authority at Stamboul during its
military occupation by the foreign
powers. But his wife, who will as
sist him at Washington in the diplo-
matte representation of his country.
is far more widely known abroad
than himself. For she is no other
than the noted Halide Edib Hanem.
the last word being the Turkish
| markable woman who ever gradu-
ated from Robert College, the cele-
brated American college, or univer-
sity, on the Bosphorus, she has played
a leading role in the establishment of
the Angora government, has been the
life and soul of the nationalist cause
and the dominant influence and
egeria of kemal Pasha until the lat
ter's marriage couple of years ago
to his very wealthy, attractive and
emancipated Smyrniote wife, who is
quite as masterful and advanced in
her ideas as Halide Hanem.
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Halide Hanem has occupied the post
of minister of education at Angora
! has long been the leader of the fem
mist movement in Turkey and has
written. and published a number OF
widely read pamphlets, as well as
three successful and interesting nov.
els, one of which, entitled "Yemi-To, ;
idealized the program of the Young
Turks and of the pan-Turanian party
! it's hero being no other than the in
| famous Talaat Pasha, who more thar
any one else was responsible for the
wholesale massacre of the Arme-
mans and who was ultimately assas.
sinated at Berlin by the son of one OF
! his victims. She is a Mahommedan.
| ized Jewess and speaks and write.
English with such perfection as te
give no trace of her oriental origin.
Her husband, the envoy, is a doctor
Iby profession, and 1t was he who, a!
director general of the military medi
| cal service of his friends, Envel
Pasha and of Djemal Pasha, ISSUED
the order during the war that al
wear the fez. Together with his wife
Halida Hanem, he. with the object o
encouraging resistance to the projects
| of the entente at Versailles for thu
tdismemberlScnt of Turkey, organized
] throughout Asia Minor the S0-callel