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FRIDAY, DECEMBER

1927.

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THE CHINA MAIL,

LAWRENCE LEGEND. years thereafter he was, on the

STORIES OF “UNCROWNED KING."

SOME ECCENTRICITIES.

field and at the Peace Conference, fully engaged in that romantic business as "Revolt in the De Bert' tolls,

Mr. Graves tells a very good atory of Lawratice's unconven tionality at odds with the high; formality of Lord Curzon, The former had gone to Jiddah in 1921 to

Hussein:

NEW GOVERNOR.

PRAISE FOR MR. HENRY L. STIMSON.

'POLITICAL LOVE-FEAST.

Not only did the two chairmen speak; the Filipinos came in for a hearing, and congressmen rose up to defend the good faith and Inten- tions of the Filipino politicians as regards the new Island administra tion.

Lawrence's "Revolt In the

Washington, Dec. 21. Desert" is now out of print, and

High tribute was paid to Henry arrange a 'treaty with

L. Stimaon, now Governor-General existing coples have acquired a certain bibliographical value. It Hussein kept him arguing for of the Philippines, by chairmen of is out of print because Lawrence two months in the heat, hoping to the Senate and House Insular Affairs Committees upon the occa- refuses to make money out of his break down British opposition to slon to-day of his visit to them as- writings about his Arabian ex- his claim for a paramount posi-sembled in joint session, ploits. "Revolt in the Desert," tion above other Arab princes, It was a real political love-feast, indeed, was an accident; it was and finally put him off altogether, apparently designed to usher in published only to recoup the suggesting that he should con- with due ceremony and era of good- author for his losses on the pri-tinue the negotiations with his will and good-feeling. vate and severely limited publica-son Abdulla in Amman, Lawrence tion of the fuller version, "The sent a cipher cable to Lord Seven Pillars of Wisdom," and Curzon, the Foreign, Minister. these losses have now been made "Can do nothing with Hussein, ap. So far as Lawrence is con- Are you fed up or shall I carry cerned, the incident is closed. on with Abdulla ?" Curzon, who However, those who thirst for in- was a stickler for the diplomatic formation about the "uncrowned phrasing of official despatches, king of Arabia" and his famous asked his secretary: "Pray, what campaign can now find it in does this term fed up signify?" "Lawrence and the Arabs," by The secretary, who had a sense Robert Graves (Cape, Ts. 6d.) of humour, replied, "I believe, my Here the story that was told in lord, that it is equivalent to 'dis- "Revolt in the Desert" is briskly gruntled." "Ah," said Curzon, retold. More than that, Mr. "I suppose that it is a term in Graves gives us chapters on

use among the middle classes." Lawrence the man, which, very vividly illustrate the eccentri cities of genius.

Young Wisdom. He was born at Tremadoc,

North Wales, in 1888.

His mother who two years ago went off unconcernedly to end her days with a mission in Cen- tral China-but has recently been sent back home much against her will because of political troubles there is a woman of decision and quiet power: with features like

Lawrence's. She told me once; "We could never be bothered with girls in our house," and, conven- iently, she had five sons and no daughters.

Personal Notes.

Here are some of our author's impressions of his hero:—

He is short (five feet five and and a half inches), with his body long, I should judge, in proportion to his legs, for he is more im- pressive seated than standing He has a big head of a Norse type, rising steeply at the back.. His hair is fair (not blond) and rather fine: his complexion is fair and he could go unshaved longer than most men without showing it The upper part of his face is kindly, almost maternal; the lower part is severe, almost

cruel

He avoids cating with other people. Regular meal-times are

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T.E. was brought up at Oxford proved that he was not as other

men.

He had a secret arrangement with the city workmen to give him any pieces of pottery or other finds that they made and was soon an actual expert on the pottery of the Middle Ages

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Opening the meeting, Senator Frank B. Willis as chairman of the Senate Insular Committee, declared Colonel Stimson to be quali fied in every way for his new posi-

tion.

"I have been amazed." said he, at his thorough familiarity with Philippine affaire. I am convinced that he will follow a polley of friendly co-operation."

Next came the House chairman, is best known as the author of the Congressman Edgar R. Kiess, who

famed Kiess Bill Congressman Kiess supported the view of Senator will with regard to Colonel Stimson.

"He made an excellent impression our commitee," declared upon Klees. "I expect that he will fol- low the Wood policies, but in a very falendly way.

"No American rights will be sur- rendered."

A number of congressmen -de-

fended Senate-President Manuel Quezon, basing their remarks upon a newspaper publication alleging that Quezon intends to fight the

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ing more than two minutes for a structor to him one day about two meal or spending more than five years ago, when he was in the minutes on a meal. This is why Tank Corps. "Do you really want Sergeant?" sald he lives mainly on bread and but to know. ter. And he likes water, better Lawrence.. He did. So Lawrence than any other drink.

explained a joke in a late-Greek been turning over in his mind dialogue of Lucian's that he had during arms drill. He quoted for a quarter of an hour, and the ser- geant and squad listened without interruption in the greatest inter-

personal characteristic is that he Perhaps his most unexpected

At the age of thirteen he began a

never looks at a man's face and series of bicycle tours round Eng-ever recognises a face. This is land by himself, and in pursuit of inherited; his father one day a study of mediaeval armour stepped on his toe in the street made a large collection of brass and passed on with an apology, est.

One is glad to learn that he has rubbings from old monuments in not knowing him. He would not

recognise his mother or his bro at least one ordinary human country churches,

thers, even, if he met them with-weakness-motor-cycling at ter-

rific speed:- out warning..

He went to Jesus College. One of his tutors writes: "His work was always on his own lines even to the hours when he came to me. Shortly after midnight to 4 a.m. was a favourite time." In six years he read every book in the library of the Oxford Union- about 50,000 in all.

High Diplomacy. He made his first trip to the East at the age of twenty, and the East held him fast. It was in 1916 that he began to take a hand in the Arab revolt, and for five

High Sped.

sleep. He rarely replies to letters. to purr along gently about 60 He avoids regular hours of "It's usually my satisfaction) He does not intend to write an-m.p.h. drinking in the air and other book. And "he can be re- the general view. I lose detail lentless to the point of cruelty"

even at such moderate speeds | but gain comprehension. When I Such is the man who (by Deed open out a little more, as for in- Poll) is now T. E. Shaw, Aircraft-stance across Salisbury Plain at man in the Royal Air Force on 80 or so, I feel the earth mould- service on the North-West Fron- ing herself under me... tier of India. He must occasion- ally astonish his comrades.

"What are you grinning at, you there?" shouted a sergeant-in

could write you pages on the lust- fulness of moving swiftly."

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