TURKEY: The Victorious One

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President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, national hero and onetime supreme commander of the revolutionary armies which swept away the Sultanate, set foot in Constantinople last week, for the first time since the Turkish Capital was officially moved thence to Angora in 1923.

To greet Kemal all Constantinople was en fete. Fifty thousand electric bulbs were festooned along the streets and from the minarets of Stamboul.* Even at Pera† the Diplomatic Corps and foreigners generally decked their establishments, in honor of Kemal. He came, at last, steaming up the Bosporus on a cream white yacht, once the Sultan's. Twelve large and forty small steamers followed. Turkish gunboats blazed salutes. The whole city rang with Kemal's nickname of honor: "Ghazi," "The Victorious One."

At the Dolma Bagcheh Palace, President Kemal made a lengthy proclamation. Excerpt:

"Turkey will continue to advance along the path of social and political development, guided by the light of science and civilization. I proclaim this sacred purpose from the palace which formerly belonged to the 'Shadow of God' on earth [The Sultan], but is now the property of the Turkish nation, which is not a shadow, but a solid fact."