Chapter 9.-Jeddah (48) a dinner party (50) the Turkish band (51).

Chapter 8.-The Lama arrives at Jedda (41) Colonel Wilson welcomes Storrs and myself (42) Emir Abdulla (43) Arab government (44) military situation (45) Storrs persuasive (47).

It is still less fair, of course, like all war-stories, to the un-named rank-and-file: who miss their share of credit, as they must do, until they can write the despatches. The same is true of Stirling, Young, Lloyd and Maynard: of Buxton and Winterton: of Ross, Stent and Siddons: of Peake, Hornby, Scott-Higgins and Garland: of Wordie, Bennett and MacIndoe: of Bassett, Scott, Goslett, Wood and Gray: of Hinde, Spence and Bright: of Brodie and Pascoe, Gilman and Grisenthwaite, Greenhill, Dowsett and Wade: of Henderson, Leeson, Makins and Nunan.Īnd there were many other leaders or lonely fighters to whom this self-regardant picture is not fair. My superior officers, Wilson, Joyce, Dawnay, Newcombe and Davenport could each tell a like tale. I could not make proper notes: indeed it would have been a breach of my duty to the Arabs if I had picked such flowers while they fought. Please take it as a personal narrative, pieced out of memory. I was fighting for my hand, upon my own midden. Bernard Shaw for countless suggestions of great value and diversity: and for all the present semi-colons. The book so written passed in 1921 into proof: where it was fortunate in the friends who criticised it. Sir Herbert Baker let me live and work in his Westminster houses. Geoffrey Dawson persuaded All Souls’ College to give me leisure, in 1919-1920, to write about the Arab Revolt.

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