Dictator Mustafa Kemal's Jewishness was Already Known
Subject: Mustafa Kemal and Enver Pasha's Jewishness in American
Newspapers
Source : The Literary Digest (a News Journal published in USA)
October 14, 1922, page: 50
A Spanish Jew by ancestry, an orthodox Moslem by
birth and breeding, trained in a German war college, a patriot, a
student of the campaigns of the world's great generals, including
Napoleon, Grant and Lee - these are said to be a few outstanding
characteristics in the personality of the new "Man on Horseback" who
has appeared in the Near East. He is a real dictator, the
correspondents testify, a man of the type which is at once the hope
and fear of nations torn to pieces by unsuccessful wars. Unity and
power have come back to Turkey largely through the will of Mustafa
Kemal Pasha.
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There was the pasha himself, tall, still young, good-looking,
narrow-hipped, wide-shouldered, with gray, rather sad eyes that
spoke eloquently of his Spanish-Jewish ancestry - for Kemal, like
Enver Pasha, tho an orthodox Moslem, is descended from those
Spanish-Jewish families that, given by Christianity the tolerant
choice between death, conversion and exile, found asylum and
happiness in the Sultan's domains - and with strong, high-veined
hands, broad and flat across the wrist - the hands of an artist, a
dreamer, yet, too, those of a doer, a man who knows how to clout his
dreams into facts.
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