Newspaper clipping of a letter to the editor from T. E. Lawrence, 11 September 1919

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Colonel Lawrence on Syria.    Y
The| letter   on   t.He   Syrian   question   front
boLONEL Lawbkhcb, which we print this morn-
igng, contains information hitherto Unpublished.
!' His authority and his right to speak can hardly
H be challenged.  It was largely,, if not principally,
| through  his  influence, and through the  confidence placed in him by the Arabs, that theL
i Arab  contribution  to  the  overthrow  of the I
J Turks was made and maintained.     But, we    I
| imagine, it is not the object of his letter to draw ;
1 attention to this aspect of the matter.   If the |
/facts are as he states them, it is clear that the !
agreement of 1916, unworkable though it bej
lin many respects, creates interests in the Arabic £
(provinces of the late Ottoman Empire for the !
French, the British, and the Arabs alike. Public if
knowledge of these interests and of the conven-11
tions  or  understandings  concerning them is, 1
unhappily, very limited.    They are legacies of m
tbejwar, and reveal at many points their vice j
aborigine.    But it is interesting and important ]
that   so   eminent   an   authoritv  as   Colonel j
j Lawrence should express the view that they j
* are not mutually incompatible. It is in any case j
clear to all who are even superficially acquainted ;
(with the elements of the problem that, however |
! the questions of   territory and of political audi
I economic influence may be adjusted,the British, j
[the French, and the Arab spheres in Arabic-]
speaking Asia are interdependent, and that pro- fl
gress will be impossible unless they work together, jj
■ What  isfrequired,  especially  on the part  of 0
nBritish and French statesmen, is joint vision !
of these common necessities and the will not j
only to agree but to cooperate in agreement^
A» a means, ta tbfft,An<iLA.IHr°rf>^^TlfT n^ anfl
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