A characteristic act of self-sacrifice has led to the death of Thomas Edward Shaw who in shis lifetime had already acquired the mystical Slamour of the heroes of romance in the eventually discarded name of Colonel T. E. Lawrence of "Arabia. Much could be said in proof of the transient value of some forms of human endeavour in comparing the actual achievements of Lawrence as leader of the Arab soldiers jand potential maker ofan Arab Empire with "the situation where King Ibn Sand of the Hedjaz Bow rules as the great consolidator of the Arab peoples. Controversy, raged and probably will continue t0 age round Lawrence's work. He suffered from the mystery which Seveloped round his doings, either his own deliberate purpose or by the too enthusiastic fervour Jcorrespondents. Of his single-minded~ ess of purpose there could be little Goubt. He was careless of honours or material rewards for himself. He could have had almost any thing he desired, but for reasons which appeared. to. him to be good, he "rejected advance: Rent and, indeed, divested himeelf what Buerdon had siresdy corns his "way. In the role of a simple Sitecateman, under an assumed name hich, ight years "ago, he formally adopted by Deed Poll, he sought 12 the philosophy Sequised in the deve philosophy seaived in the desert Arabia, "could not be said tat always successful tu avoiding the attention of the world, for someway or other, his. name. was continually and quite preposterously
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