Miss Gertrude Bell died last week. When Death entered her low, rambling, exquisitely luxurious home in Bagdad, Great Britain lost the most remarkable and certainly the most charming woman who has served the Empire in a century. Middleaged, but slender and quick as a girl, she was by title only Oriental secretary to Sir Henry Dobbs, British High Commissioner to Irak. Actually Sir Henry, King Faisal of Irak, and Premier Abdul Mushsin Beg al Ga'dun, deferred consistently to her as the most brilliant and profound feminine apostle of Anglo-Mesopotamian concord who ever lived....
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