1939-07-10 — Page 27

King Victor Emmanuel chats with Premier Mussolint (right) and Count Clano at a recent naval review.

Monday,

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Lawrence of Secret Out

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WHY

I WAS A FRAUD'

July 10, 1939.

Arabia's

Doctors Go

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MEN and women doctors from

all over Britain are back at

One thousand five hundred of

JHY did T. E. Lawrence "Lawrence of Arabia," school.

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 accept in this campaign, but he says of him- expenses paid by the State so that one, but because of a fluent pen, a remote districts may be kept up to self: "My proper share was a minor medical treatment even in the most free speech, and a certain adroitness | date.

Great War-never any reward from a grateful country?

of brain, I took upon myself, us I ́de- The courses were Instituted lust scribe it, a mock primacy.

year by the Ministry of Health. At the moment they are in full swing.

Why did he shed his military rank of colonel and become an "In reality, I never had any office aircraftman in the Royal Airamong the Arabs, was never in Force, refusing promotion even them.

charge of the British. Mission withi

Wilson, Joyce, Newcombe, to the rank of corporal?

Dawnxy, and Davenport were all Battered mykel! These questions are answered by over my head. I Lawrence himself in "Oriental As-that I was too young, not that they sembly" (Williams and Norgate, 10s.ind 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.

"WE PAY TOO MUCH"

What his best was is explained by Usls sentence: "I meant to make

While the G.P.s go back to text- books, lectures and ward visits under the instruction tat world-famous teachers in medicine, their practices being looked after by locums pald for by the Ministry.

NEW DRUGS explained At Hammersmith Hospital recently class of 22, druwe from all parts of ing to Dr. T. C. Hunt explaining how the country, spent the morning listen-

and B 003, to use the drugs sulphanilamide and which have revolu- Just two

It includes the suppressed, intro-new nation, lo restore 11 lost in- ductory chapter to "Seven Pillars of fluence, lo give 20,000,000 of Semites Wisdom, Lawrence's famous book the foundation on which to build an tionised medicine in the

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on the Arab campalga, and it is in Inspired dream-palace of their years; when to give serum to pneu- W.R. LOXLEY & Co., (China) Ltd.

this that be replies to the questions whielt have Intrigued the public with regard to his conduct after the

I war,

"PRESUMPTION"

national thoughts.

Nelson Keys Left become dubious, and French colonial

£2,519, No Will NELSON ("Bunch") Keys the comedian, who died in April at the age of 52, left £2,510, with nel personalty nil

He left no will, and letters of ad- ministrations have been granted to his

monki patients, and how 10 make "So high an aim called out the in-rapid tests to find out which type of herent nobility of their minds, and pneumonia germ is present. made them play a generous part in it was events; but when we won

Next the hospital dietician, Miss charged against me that the British Simmonds, gave examples of dietary He describes unself us a "dishon-petrol royalties in Mesopotamia were schemes to suit different complaints. In the afternoon a surgeon lectured Shorefield-gardens. Westcliff-on-Sen. Cause he was a "successful trickster." policy ruined in the Levant." Jon digestive problems.

There are four sons, all in the alm he refused all honours.

And, adds Lawrence: "I am afraid History tells of the business. The eldest, John Paddy-j

[part that I hope so. We pay for those Carstairs 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 Bves. I went up the Tigris by thousands into the fre; to the deed poll a few months ago), said last rence and the Emir

King of Iniq), in what is called the with 100 Devon Territorials, young, worst of deaths, not to win the war night:

must say the amount of his Arab War, ending with the defent clean, delightful fellows, full of the but that the corn and rice and oil of state was something of a shock to us, of the Turks and the conquest of power of happiness and of making Mesopotamia might be ours." batam afraid dear old Bunch, like; Syria and Palestine.

women and children glad.

Bitterly and with self-repranch Much has been said and written of "By them one saw vividly bow | Lawrence declares that the Arabs the genius of Lawrence as a leader) great it was to be their kin, and were deceived by a conspiracy. He

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"They saw in me a free agent of your Gabardine, Palm- the British Government, and de- beach, Sharkskin and

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"In this hope they performed some fine things, but, of course, instead of being proud of what we did together, I WIEN continually Bod bitterly ashamed."

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POLITICAL REASONS

Tite dismissa} of Sir Henry

McMahon (High Commissioner for Egypt) confirmed my bellef in our essential Insincerity; but I could not so explain myself to General Wingate (his successor) while the war insted, since I was nominally under his orders, and he did not seem sensible [of how tolac his own standing was. The only thing remaining was to refuse rewards for being a success- ful trickster und, to prevent this un- pleasantness arising, I began in my reports to conceal the true stories of things, and to persuade 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 omilted from the subscribers' edition at "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" "on the advice of Mr. Bernard Show 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 occasion of the trial for ur organised propaganda attack on Jewry, throughout France. Everything will be done to suggest that the aSSNE- sination of Von Rath was organ- ised by "International Jewry.”

How this should be done was ex- plained to the Griman correspon- denis ni a meeting at the Germ Embassy recently by a high official of the German Government."

"Everything must be done," the newspaper correspondents were strucici. "to open the eyes of the French publie to the fact that Jewry was bebind ils crime."

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