"You Westerners idolize your Colonel T. E. 'Lawrence of Arabia' " observed in Cairo last week the Sheik Mustapha El Maraghi, rector of the Egyptian capital's 1,000-year-old Moslem University. "You credit Lawrence entirely with the success of the revolt of the Arabs against the Turks. You Westerners do not know that not even a hundred Lawrences could have aroused the Arabs against their Caliph, the Turkish Sultan, had it not been for the almost unlimited amount of gold sovereigns Lawrence had at his disposal. There is very little, if anything, a Bedouin would...
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