The news that the Angora Government has recommended the establishment of a Republic in Turkey, and that Mustapha Kemal is first favourite for the Presidency is of equal interest and—significance. Nobody can_ seriously imagine for a moment that a republic is likely to prove a success in a country like Turkey any more than it has done in: China. On the other hand Turkey possesses a very strong oligarchical government with one exceedingly strong man at the head of it. The Sultan himself is a weak creature, a mere puppet in the hands of the Angora Nationalists, and one cannot help suspecting that the professions of republicanism by the latter are really a preliminary move to instituting a new dynasty in Turkey, of which it cannot need any great perspicuity to identify Mustapha Kemal as founder and first Emperor.
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