LAWRENCE THOMAS EDWARD (1888-1935) [LAWRENCE D’ARABIE].

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LAWRENCE THOMAS EDWARD (1888-1935) [LAWRENCE D’ARABIE].
Signed autograph letter, signed « TELawrence », 18 November 1922, to William Ormsby GORE; 1 page oblong in-8 format (slight foxing), in a blue half-morocco folder; in English. William Ormsby GORE (1775-1964) was a London politician who during World War I served in Egypt, where he acquired a lifelong interest in Zionism and in 1917 became an assistant secretary to the Cabinet. He was British liaison officer with the 1918 Zionist Mission to Palestine and member of the British delegation to the Paris Peace conference. In October 1922, he was appointed parliamentary undersecretary in the Colonial Office Lawrence reflects on his own experiences as he gives advice to William Ormsby Gore in the present letter. “Congratulations, first on getting in, second on getting the C[olonial] O[ffice]. The circumstances will make your position in the latter more effective than it usually is. I hope you’ll be able to save some of the pieces from the press wolves: but it will be difficult: and not pleasant for you. Those poor Eastern creatures are so impossibly ungracious towards help and so unable to dispense with it…” After the Arab Revolt against Turkish domination ended in October 1918, Lawrence returned to England to promote the cause of Arab independence, in which he believed passionately. He served in the British Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, working closely with the emir Feisal and lobbying vainly for the Arab cause (even appearing in Arab robes). By the end of 1920, attempts to impose a British colonial administration in Iraq had provoked open rebellion. As a result the British government had to spend huge sums on repression, and Winston Churchill was appointed to the Colonial Office to find a solution. He persuaded Lawrence, who had been campaigning against government policy in the press, to assist him as adviser. Lawrence was instrumental in the accession of Feisal to the Iraqi throne, and in the founding of the Kingdom of Transjor
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