Politika
- Protecting Depositors in Our Country
- The Bessarabian Question
- Kemal Pasha’s Love Story
Politika’s September 29, 1926 selections moved from the security of household savings to international diplomacy and marital reform. Dr. Pavlić proposed collective bank audits and assistance for troubled institutions to protect depositors. Averescu defended friendship with Italy, linked political relations to a future trade treaty, and asserted Romania’s rights over Bessarabia. A story about Kemal and Latife juxtaposed praise for Turkish women’s improved position with a portrayal of their divorce that blamed her consuming love.
This edition covers only the three supplied selections from Politika of September 29, 1926. Neither OCR candidate supplied dependable article text; the selections were transcribed from legible image passages, with line-wrap hyphenation joined. The banking and Bessarabia selections begin and end within sentences. The Kemal selection ends during a comparison about Latife’s education. English retains the interrupted endings. Japanese ellipses mark the corresponding gaps within Japanese word order, including the missing object of comparison in the education sentence. Missing continuations are not reconstructed.
Translation
Protecting Depositors in Our Country
By Dr. Pavlić
so that everyone will keep on their person or at home only as much money as is indispensable for daily life. Since the state administration is too sluggish to organize deposit-taking institutions successfully, these institutions must organize themselves under a special law prescribing all the duties of a Central Association of Financial Institutions, along with its rights and privileges. Its duties would include supervising all members through special auditing bodies. Only the institution audited would be informed of the audit’s findings, and only if the interests of creditors and depositors were endangered would the Central Association become obliged to take every measure for their protection. In that event, the Central Association would have to draw up a plan to rehabilitate the troubled institution, either through loans on favorable terms or through a merger with another sound financial—
The Bessarabian Question
satisfies only Italy and is incompatible with Romania’s interests. This assertion, however, does not correspond to the truth. “We have merely concluded a treaty of friendship,” says Mr. Averescu, “and nothing else.” A protocol was appended to the Treaty of Rome providing that political relations would necessarily lead to the signing of a commercial treaty. The prime minister then spoke about the Bessarabian question. He declared that Bessarabia belonged to Romania in fact and by right. Our rights to Bessara—
Kemal Pasha’s Love Story
Istanbul, September. The creator of the new Turkey, the celebrated Kemal Pasha, has divorced his wife, Latife Hanım. Until recently, a husband in Turkey did not have to divorce his wife. It was enough simply to throw her out into the street. Kemal has raised Turkish women’s rights almost to the level of a European woman’s marital rights. For their better life, Turkish women should thank the man whom all Turks thank for their freedom. Yet Kemal, who has made all Turkish women happy, has made his own wife, the lovely Latife, unhappy. Turkish newspapers do, admittedly, absolve Turkey’s ruler of responsibility for the divorce. Latife herself is to blame—or rather, her boundless, fanatical love for her husband. The case of Latife Hanım is a unique example of how thoroughly a woman can drive away the man she loves through her sincere love. The beautiful Latife is the daughter of wealthy parents who lived in Smyrna. In her youth she received an education far more extensive and far freer than that which
Context
Bank confidence and collective intervention
Pavlić’s proposal links the protection of savings to the strength of the institutions holding them. Audits would remain confidential, but danger to creditors and depositors would trigger collective intervention through favorable credit or a merger. The regional banking history helps explain the stakes. A significant Croatian bank’s liquidation in 1925 affected Slovenian banks and the population; banks then had to reorganize and write off irrecoverable investments. Lazarević also describes a fragmented Slovenian banking sector with insufficient capital and government efforts during the 1920s to encourage consolidation across the Yugoslav banking market. Against these conditions, Pavlić’s proposed central association offered a mechanism for supervising members and coordinating rescue when an individual institution faltered. His criticism of sluggish state administration explains why he assigned that work to the institutions themselves under a special law. Protection in this passage operates through institutional rehabilitation; no fixed compensation payment to individual depositors is specified.
Friendship, trade, and the separate recognition question
Averescu’s defense of friendship with Italy brought together three distinct diplomatic issues: political agreement, a future commercial treaty, and Romania’s claim to Bessarabia. During his September 1926 visit, Italy promised in exchanged letters to ratify the 1920 Paris treaty concerning Bessarabia, but did not immediately do so. Otu explains the delay through Mussolini’s wish to maintain relations with Moscow and retain influence over Romania. This gives practical significance to the article’s movement from friendship and trade to territorial rights: a friendly agreement had not yet secured the promised ratification. In January 1927, Mihail Manoilescu visited Italy for commercial negotiations and continued pressing the ratification question. Italian ratification followed in March. Averescu’s declaration that Bessarabia belonged to Romania in fact and by right thus expressed his government’s position while a consequential diplomatic commitment remained outstanding.
Marital reform turned into a personal drama
The report credits Kemal personally with women’s improved position, then contrasts that public achievement with Latife’s unhappiness. Its account of her overwhelming love, reinforced by an attribution to Turkish newspapers, supplies a moral explanation that shifts responsibility toward the wife. The chronology places this personal drama alongside a later legal reform: the marriage ended on August 5, 1925, while the Civil Code was adopted on February 17, 1926 and took effect on October 4, five days after this issue. The article therefore brings an earlier divorce into a current reform story. Its contrast between the happiness of Turkish women collectively and the unhappiness of Kemal’s own wife turns the reformer’s domestic life into the organizing theme of the report; the explanation of Latife’s motives belongs to that portrayal.
Original
Заштита улагача код нас
па, тако да ће свако држати код себе односно код куће само толико новца, колико му је неопходно потребно за дневни живот. Пошто је државна управа сувише трома да би могла успешно организовати депозитне установе, потребно је да се оне саме организују на основу нарочитог закона, који има да пропише све дужности Централе Новчаних Завода, а и њена права и повластице. Међу њене дужности спадао би надзор над свим члановима, који би се вршио путем нарочитих ревизијских органа. О резултатима ревизије обавештавао би се само ревидирани завод, и једино ако би били у опасности интереси поверилаца и улагача, онда би наступила дужност Централе, да предузме све мере за њихову заштиту. У том би случају Централа имала израдити план о санацији посрнуле установе или помоћу повољних кредита, или фузијом са другим солидним нов -
Питање Бесарабије
задовољава само Италију а није у сагласности са интересима Румуније. Ово тврђење међутим не одговара исти ни Ми смо само један пријатељски уговор закључили, каже г. Авереску, и ништа друго. Римском уговору придодат је један протокол који предвиђа да ће политички односи донети као неопходну последицу потписивање једног трговинског уговора. Председник владе говорио је затим о бесарабијском питању. Изјавио је да Бесарабија припада Румунији фактично и по праву. Наша права на Бесара -
Љубавни роман Кемал-паше
Стамбул, септембра Творац нове Турске, чувени Кемал Паша развео се од своје жене Латифе ханум. У Турској, доскора, муж од жене није морао да се разводи. Довољно му је било само да је избаци на улицу. Кемал је права турске жене подигао скоро на висину брачних права једне Европејке. За свој бољи живот Туркиње има да буду захвалне човеку коме сви Турци захваљују за слободу. Али Кемал, који је све Туркиње усрећио, унесрећио је своју жену, дивну Латифу. Турске новине истина за развод скидају одговорност са господара Турске. Крива је сама Латифа, управо њена безгранична фанатична љубав према мужу. Случај Латифа ханум је јединствен случај колико жена искреном љубављу може од себе да одбије онога кога љуби. Лепа Латифа је ћерка богатих родитеља који су живели у Смирни. У младости је добила васпитање, много веће и много слободније него што га