QUICK-CHANGE NATIONALITY.
Constantinople, and the neighbouring regions have been the great scene of quick-change cosmopolitanism. "We naturally think of nationality a« being a matter of birth and race," says Sir Charles Eiiot, "but in the Levant _ it/ is regarded as a kind of privilege which may be acquired; lost, or changed. No one sees anything incongruous in one brother being an Englishman, a second a Belgian, and a third a Turkish subject. On the outbreak of the Turco-Greek war Hellenic subjects were placed under certain disabilities which "affected their business. One of them came to me and asked whether he could not be made then and there a British subject. He was distressed to find it was impossible ; but a day or two afterwards I met him satisfied and smiling. ' He had become a Servian, and all was right again."
An Excellent Substitute. — Tourist-- You have a very largo acreage of corn under cultivation. Don't the crows trouble you a great deal ? Farmer—Oh, not to any extent ! Tourist — That's peculiar, considering you have no scarecrows ! Farmer Oh, well, I'm out here a good part of th« tun* nmetf ' ' • L
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 11
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189QUICK-CHANGE NATIONALITY. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 11
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