A TURKISH PATRIOT.

Grey River Argus, 28 April 1910, Page 7

A TURKISH PATRIOT.

Enver Bey, one of the most pronir; inent of tho Young Turks, has been visiting London. He was. one of thq men who made the revolution in Turkey, and during the strenuous days of, 1908, when the Constitutiion of hie country was in the melting-pot, he was a member of the Committee of Public Safety at Salonika, goveixiing th© Empire by telegraph and dictating a policy to the new Cabinet at Constantinople, the members of thw oo'mmitte© demanded no position of pei-manent responsibility for themsel-j vm. Their self-imposed task was to give freedom to Turkey, - and that done, they did not propose to retahi the reins of power. The older men, they said, would be asked to take the. oath of' the new Constitution, and then be given a fair trial. Since that time some members of the committee have been' ind\tced ; by circumstances to accent office in the Government, but; Enver Bey has been satisfied to retire to a posJti'on of compar«.tive obscurity as military attache at Berlin, where hei has been Studying army organkatian. Ho hurried back to Turkey last year when news, of the counter-revoiu-tvon' reached him, and resumed his duties as attache when order had been restored. "You see, we are ■- getting, on," he remarked to a friend in London. "The difficulties are enormous, but progress is continuous. Hakki. Tolaat, Dy avid and others are in office bo tho divorce between authority and responsibility is almost gone. The army p withdrawn from politics, and as a soldier J think that most desirable. We wiish. to "withdraw it as ab : solutely as possible. the army and liiavy are entirely .contrpljed by; the Cabinet, which in turn rests on the majority in the Chamber; and all the Ministers but two are deputies and answerable to the Chamber. "We -desire that there shall bo no secret agency." He added that, every effort was being made to establish schools.;. The Young Turks desired peace above all things. The affairs of their .conn try had to be set in order, and the Constitution so corisolidaited that ,it could never be overthrown. Env y or Bey added . that his party was '.most grafefu.l to Britain for it^ moral sup^ port and for the services of Admiral Gamble, who had worked wonders, with the; Turkish, fleet. Jt is surprising to. learn that this Turkish soldier, air ready great in achievement, is but ,28 years of age. . .