31/34 They tread on British corns, out here, all they want to, while they toss bouquets, backed by airplanes, across the English Channel." "Then the war didn't end the old diplomacy ?" "What a question! But I haven't more than scratched the Near East surface for you yet. There's Mustapha Kemal in Anatolia, leader of the Turkish Nationalists, no more dead or incapacitated than a possum. He's playing for his own hand--Kaiser Willy stuff--studying Trotzky and Lenin, and flirting with Feisul's party on the side. Then there's a Bolshevist element among the Zionists--got teeth, too. |