Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-10-26 | Page 16 | Turkish Chief Shows Self as Real Dictator

T TURKISH CHIEF SH A ARAl AS REAL RAl DICTATOR R Entirely Recast Nation I in in jn Eight Years A f j 0 of f R Rule U I e t I J LONDON LONDO Oct 25 23 president and undisputed boss of tho the Turkish republic has Just himself to be a a. dictator In a n. class alt all b by himself When King ICing Alexander made himself himself him him- self dictator of ot he lie abolIshed abolished abolished abol abol- parliament and suppressed political parties Wh When n n. the the- late General Rivera made mad himself dictator tor of ot Spain he hc did the same Fame thing thinS and his successor suc- suc suc cessor Gen General ral Berenguer also has lias made to motion to allow politics poll poli tics to be bo restored d In Italy Mussolini has Ims permitted a parliament but It Is made mado up of 01 practically nothing but hut fascists As they are all nil yes CS men men the time parliament parlia ment Is 18 n nothing more than timan a rubber rubber rub rub- ber bel stamp THRIVES ON OPPOSITION Similar conditions to Ito those in n Italy have havo existed up imp to now In Inthe Inthe the tIme Turkish republic But Mustapha Mustapha Mus- Mus lapha Kemal has suddenly decided that In the time CO country and in parliament parlia ment there must be a party part In opposition opposition opposition op op- op- op position to tho the popular party part of ot wh which h ii h he is president and which heretofore has been the only on ono in inthe the he legislative assembly It Is one oneo o of or the extraordinary acts act of or this extraordinary man maim who In the course of or eight short years has en entirely entirely en- en recast and remade his nation Mustapha Kemal founded rounded his power when he reorganized the time disheartened and beaten Turkish army made It str strong ng led It himself himself him him- self and utterly crushed the tho Greek Gree expedition Into Asia M Minor nor which had he been n en cn encouraged by some orth of or th the allied powers Undisputed I boss bos he could have ha made himself a sult sultan n. n In Instead 1 h w ho t M. tr t.- t. t vY i rf lt r iA f j j i. i C 43 1 I N tW t g. g President Kemal Pasha For inviting competition hes he's called callec foolish foolish like a fox he lie decreed that Turkey should be a republic and had himself elected president He lie wiped out not only time the political sultanate but the time Mohammedan n religious caliphate He destroyed tho the conne connection tion o of church and state stale making of f Turkey a laic hale nation Ho Ito tossed tosse into inlo the sto basl basket t the tho 01 old systems 8 of laws law based upon ancient Moslem co codes cs and gave ravo Turkey a modern civil code based upon that of Sw HE ALTERED CUSTOMS Ho abandoned Constantinople a atho aa as the tho capital of oC his country because use In tho the past big powers had been able ablo to bi Ing Ule to bear upon time the Turks Lurks by sending their battleships battleships battleships battle battle- ships with their frowning guns 11 light ht into the port By a a. simple decree ho did awa away with the centuries old custom of or wearing tho time red fez rez Thereafter under penalty of tines fines they had to wear European headgear r He Hc Is adopting the time modern system of or letters letters let let- instead of the time old Turkish al alphabet alphabet al- al He shows show hI his contempt for old Moslem prejudices by appearing at balls in immaculate evening e clothes lancing dancing to jazz music and sipping champagne champagne herral Moslem Mos Mos- Ios- Ios lem hem law is is dead a against intoxicating drink Ho has imas started an ambitious ambitious ambi ambi- railway program has imas modernIzed modernized modern modern- his arm army and seen t ly tJ It that It ItIs ItIs itis Is regularly paid