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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 10, 1939.
of
Arabia's
Lawrence
Secret Out
DECLINED HONOURS
I WAS A FRAUD'
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WHY did T. E. Lawrence "Lawrence of Arabia,”
the young man who accomplished so much with the them are having their fees for a Arabs on behalf of England and the Allies during the "refresher" course and living
Great War-never accept any reward from a grateful country?
Why did he shed his military rank of colonel and become an aircraftman in the Royal Air Forec, refusing promotion even to the rank of corporal?
These questions are answered by Lawrence himself in "Oriental As- sembly" (Williss and Norgate, 10s. d.). published recently. The book Is a collection of the wrkings af T. E. Lawrence, edited by hls! brother, Mr. A. W. Lawrence,
in this campaign, but he says of him-cxpenses paid by the State so that selt: "My proper share was a minor medical treatment even in the most one, but because of a fuent pen, a remote districts may be kept up to free speech, and a certain adroitnessdule. of brain, I look upon myself, us I de- scribe 11, a mock primacy,
The curses were Instituted.. last year by the Ministry of Health. At the moment they are in full swing.
While the G.P.x go back to lexi-
"In reality, never hud any office among the Arabs, was never in charge of the British Misslun with books, lectures and ward visits under them. Wilson, Joyce, Newcombe, the Instruction of world-famous Dawnay, and Davenport were all tenchers la medicine, the practices that I was too young, not that they for by the Ministry. aver my head. I flattered myself are being looked after by locums paid had mare heart or mind in the work.
I did my best."
NEW DRUGS EXPLAINED
"WE PAY TOO MUCH"
At Hammersmith Hospital recently a class of 22, drawn from all parts of What his best was is explained by the country, spent the morning listen- this sentence: "I meant to make ing to Dr. T. C. Hunt explaining how It includes the suppressed Intro- new nation, to restore a lost
to use the drugs sulphanllamide and ductory chapter to "Seven Fillurs of fuence, to give 20,000,000 of Semites and 1 093, which have revolu- Wisdom," Lawrence's famous book the foundation on which to build an ionised medicine in the last two un the Arab campaign, and it is Inspired dream-paince of their
years; when to give serum to pneu- this that he replies to the questions national thoughts.
to make monla patients, and how which have intrigued the public with regard to his conduct after the
war,
"PRESUMPTION"
"So high an aim called out the in-rapid tests to find out which type of berent nobility of their minds, and pneumonia, germ is present. made them play a enerous part in
Nelson Keys Left der lens Westcliff-on-Sea, cause he was a "successful trickster polley ruined in the Levant."
events; but when we won it was Next the hospital dietielan, Miss charged against me that the British Simtvands, gave examples of dietary He describes himself as a "diston-petrol royalties in Mesopotamia were schemes to suit different complaints. In the afternoon a surgeon lectured widows, Mes. Hazel Edeen Keys of est adviser" of the Arabs, and become dubious, and French colonial
on digestive problems, And, adds Lawrence: "I am afraid There are four sons, all in the he refused all honours.
History tells of the great part that I hope so. We pay for those £2,519, No Will business. The ethel, John Paddy-
Crestals, the changed his name by played by the Arabs, led by Law things too much in honour and In English. And we were casting them Feisal (later nocent lives. I went up the Tigris by thousands into the fire: to the NELSON ("Hunch") Keys the deed put a few aetas ago), old last frence and the Emit
King of Iraq), in what is called the with 100 Devon Territorials, young, worst of deaths, not to win the war comedian, who died in April night
"I must say the amount of his Arab War, ending with the defeat clean, delightful fellows, full of the but that the corn and rice and oil of at the age of 52, left £2,519, with state was ometa ng of a shock to us of the Turks and the conquest of power of happiness and of malting Mesopotamia might be ours."
wones and children glad.
Bitterly and with self-reproach net personally nil.
but I now attrid deal old Hunch. like Syria and Palestine.
"By them one saw vividly how Lawrence declares He hit no will, and letters of ade mary tenutrient peuple. never
the genius of Lawrence as a leader great it was to be their kin, and were deceived by a conspiracy. He inistration have ren genoted to his looked very far ahead."
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A "CONSPIRACY"
"They saw in me a free agent of
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manded from me on endorsement of
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Brew accustomed to believing me and
to think my Government, like my- self, sincere.
"In this hope they performed same
ine things, but, of course, intend of
being proud of what we did together, 你 was continually and bitterly
ashamed."
He goes on: "It was evident from The beginning that if we won the war these promises would be dend paper, and had I been alt honest adviser of the Arabs I would have Intivised them to go home and nat risk their lives fighting for such
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POLITICAL REASONS
"The dismissal of Sir Henry McMahon (High Commissioner for Egypt) confirmed my belief in our essential insincerity; but I could not so explain myself to General Wingate (his successor) while the war lusted, since 1 was nominally
under his ordera, and he did not seem sensible of hove false his own standing was. "The only thing remaining was to refuse rewards for being a success- ful trickster and, to prevent this un- pleasantness arising. began in my reports to conceal the true stories of things, and to persuade the few Arabs who knew to an equal re- ticence."
Mr. A. W. Lawrence, in an Editor's Note to this chapter, says that it was emilted from the subscribers' edition of "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" "on the advice of Mr. Bernard Shaw and for political reasons."
Assassin Is Nazis' Scapegoat
PARIS.
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man newspapers have been told by Dr. Goebbels exactly how they shall report the forth. coming Grynzpan trial,
The object is to make the most of the ocension of the trial for an organised propaganda attack on Jewry throughout France Everything will be done to suggest that the ass18- sination of Von Ruth was organ- ised by "International Jewry."
How this should be done was ex- plained to the German correspon- denta ut a meeting at the German Embassy recently by a high official of the German Government.
the "Everything must be done," newspaper correspondents were in- structed, to open the eyes of the French pubtle to the fact that Jewry wna behind this crime."
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