MUSSOLINI OF TURKEY

Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1930, Page 2

MUSSOLINI OF TURKEY

WORK OF KEMAL PASHA. While people in New Zealand ami all the world have heard much ol the doings and the sayings of Mussohm, lvemal Pasha, of Turkey, has done as much lor his country, and in a quie but not less efficient way, said Mr L». S. Radley, of Auckland, who returned alter a tour of England and the Continent, by the Rangitane last week “Perhaps it is because Turkey is the East and Italy if the West, but t.ie stories of tings that happen do not i leak out of Turkey like they do out ot I Italy,” said Mr Radley. “Kemal Pasha I has' abolished the veil among women, | and has made them free in a way they had never before dreamed of. In short, he has tried to modernise Turkey, to free her from the shackles ol the past. Mr Rod lev travelled through most of Balkan and Central Europe and he ‘ said that when he was m Austria he *. was immediately reminded ot uh.it France must have been like m 18/U ’ I after the Frnnco-Prussian war. Austria grieved over the carving up ol her ancient dominions, and maps " e,t shown, the one immediately after t ie . other, of Austria as she was be ore tic war, and as she now is. “Central Eu>- ' ope is not at rest,” Mr Radley said. 5 “Of course, I was the casual observei.. } but it struck me tlmt there was an undercurrent.” One factor, he ment- ,■ ioned was that while Austria proper had > the factories, the mineral deposits were , i n Yugoslavia, and while it was possible to provide the former, the lattei 3 were not possible to secure. He uas e not particularly struck with too P 1( . ponderai.ee of Italy in Central Europe, n At least it was not overt,

r e Contrast in Administraticn. 'f While he was in Jerusalem the comabout the Mailing Wall iiots ,f i was sitting. As a whole lie considerec t that the Jews were satisfied with the government of the British mandate, but i there were other factors. While France,

which had the mandate over Syria, Just across the way from Palest.no, found it necessary to police the comitiy with some 20,000 soldiers, Britain controlled Palestine with only 2000. That alone, in his opinion, spoke volumes for British administration. “I S aid that Kemal Pasha was modernising Turkey, but there is still a romance about the East which wraps 'the country round like a cloak. I jmni neyed through Palestine and Syria, anc ji u the little, lazy sun-baked villages | away in the hills life moves on in the I leisurely way it has ever clone. The people there did licit care wlicthei tm women wore veils or the British or tin Arabs ruled. They tend their herds anc ! are content. I passed through tin orange groves at Jufln, nnd while : j noticed the remarkably fine crop I re i meniber'ed that tlms • same groves Iwc ‘ borne fruit since the Biblical days. A j ,;Tso saw the snow of the almond trees a favourite Biblical reference, 1 though of the age and of the tradition, ol tin land.”

Building Boom in London. Returning to more mundane things Mr Radley spoke of the building boom lat present going on in London. r lhe 'London County Council was building in I one suburb alone 12,000 houses aiut flats, which, would accommodate 70,000 people. Where two years ago there had ■ been idle ground there had grown up a I bustling suburb. The growth in a huge | city like London was remarkable. Per- ' haps the reason for it was that mam | of the older tenement houses were baling demolished to give place 10 f; dories, and the residental areas were , moving further oirUj The New Zealand apple grower was meeting with a bad time in England, Ihe said, possibly on account of the j trade depression. Much soft fruit was coining from the Continent, and the fruit counties, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, were agitating for protection against Continental competition. Nevertheless, lie did not think things in Britain were as bad as sometimes they were painted.