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King Victor Emmanuel chuts with Premier Mussolini (right) and Count Ciano ni a recent naval review,

Monday,

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Lawrence of Secret Out

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I WAS A FRAUD'

July 10, 1939. Library, Supreme Court

Arabia's

WHY did T. E. Lawrence "Lawrence of Arabia,”

Doctors Go To School

MEN and women doctors from all over Britain are back at school.

One thousand five hundred of

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 in this campaign, but he says of him-expenses paid by the State so that any reward from a grateful act: "My proper share was a minor medlent treatment even in the most one, but because of a fluent pen, a remote districts may be kept up to

date. country?

free speech, and a certain adroitness of brain, i took upon myself, as I de- The courses were instituted last Why did he shed his military scribe ti, a mock primacy.

year by the Ministry of Health. At rank of colonel and become an. "In reality. I never had any office the moment they are in full swing. aircraftman in the Royal Air among the Arabs, was never in

While the G.P.s go back to text- Force, refusing promotion even charge of the British Mission, with books, lectures and ward visits under them. Wilson, Joyce, Newcombe, to the rank of corporal?

the Instruction of world-famous Dawnay, and Davenport were all teachers in medicine, their practices These questions are answered by over my head. 1, flattered myself are being looked after by locums pald Lawrence himself in "Oriental As that I was too young, no! that they for by the Ministry. sembly" (Willums and Norgate, 10s.ad more heart or mind in the work,

I did my best."

Od.), published recently. The book is a collection of the writings of T. E. Lawrence, edited by his brother, Mr. A. W. Lawrence,

war,

NEW DRUGS EXPLAINED

"WE PAY TOO MUCH"

At Hammersmith Hospital recently Ju 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 a ing to Dr. T. C. Hunt explaining how

It includes the suppressed Intro- new nation, to restore a lost in to use the drugs suphanilamide and ductory chapter to "Seven Pillars of Quence, to give 20,000,000 of Semites "M and B 003," which have revolu- Wisdom," Lawrence's famous book the foundation on which to build an tionised medicine in the last two Jun the Arab campaign, and it is in|Inspired dream-palace of their years; when to give serum to pneu-

this that he replica to the questions national thoughts.

monia patients, and how to make which have intrigued the public "So high an aim called out the in- rapid tests to find out which type of with regard to his conduct after the herent nobility their minds, and pneumonia germ is present.

made them play a generous part in "PRESUMPTION"

events; but when we won it was Next the hospital dietician, Miss charged against me that the British Simmonds, gave examples of dietary He describes himself as a "dishon pelrol royalties in Mesopotamia were schemes to suit different complaints. In the afternoon a surgeon feetured widow, Mrs. Inzet Eileen Keys, atest adviser" of the Arabs, and be become dubious, and French colonial

Jon digestive problems. There are four sons, all in the film he refused all honours.

And, adds Lawrence: "I am afraid great part that I hope su business. The eldest, John Paddy History tells of the

We pay for those Carstairs the changed his panse by played by the Arabs, led by Law things too much in honour and in English, And we were casting them [ELSON (“Bunch") Keys the deed poll a few months age), sald last rence and the Emir

(later nocent lives. I went up the Tigris by thousands into the fire; to the NE

King of Iraq), lo what is called the with 100 Devon Territorials, young, worst of deaths, not to win the war comedian, who died in Aprilright;

"I must say the mount of his Arab Wor, ending with the defeat clean, delightful fellows, full of the but that the corn and rice and oil of at the age of 62, left £2,519, with estate was something of a shock to us, of the Turks and the conquest of power of happiness and of making Mesopotamia might be ours." not personalty nil

but I am droit dear old Bunch, Ukej Syria and Palestine.

women and children gind.

Bitterly and with self-reproach | He left no will, and letters of ad-sq many theatrical people, never "Much has been said and written off "By them one saw vividly how Lawrence declares that the Arabs mmistration have been granted to his looked very far ahead.

the genius of Lawrence as a lender great it was to be their kin, and were deceived by a conspiracy, Ho

Nelson Keys Left Sharie-urdens Westclift-on-Sea, cause he was a successful trickster," policy ruined in the Levant."

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POLITICAL REASONS

The dismissal of Sir Henry McMahon (High Commissioner for Erypt) confirmed my belief in our essential insincerity; but could not so explain myself to General Wingate this successor) while the war lasted. since I was nominally under his forders, and he did not seem sensible of how 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, I begon in my reports to conceal the true stories of things, and to persundo the few Arabs, who knew to an equal re- licence."

Mr. A. W. Lawrence, in an Editor's Note to this chapter, says that it was omitted from the subscribers edition of "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" "01 the advice of Mr. Bernard Shaw and for political reasons,"

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