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At
Oxford High School in October 1936 Winston Churchill unveiled
a plaque to former pupil T.E. Lawrence. His tribute included:
"Lawrence was one of those beings whose pace of life was faster and more intense than what is normal. Just as an aeroplane only
flies by its speed and pressure against the air, so he flew best and easiest in the hurricane. He was not in complete harmony with
the normal.
The fury of the Great War raised the pitch of life to the Lawrence standard. The multitudes were swept forward till their pace
was the same as his. In this heroic period he found himself in perfect relation both to men and events.
I have often wondered what would have happened to Lawrence if the Great War had continued for several more years. His fame was
spreading fast and with the momentum of the fabulous through Asia. The earth trembled with the wrath of the
warring nations. All the metals were molten. Everything was in motion. No one could say what was impossible. Lawrence might
have realised Napoleon's young dream of conquering the East; he might have arrived in Constantinople in 1919 or 1920 with most of
the tribes and races of Asia Minor and Arabia at his back.
But the storm wind ceased as suddenly as it had arisen. The skies were clear; the bells of Armistice rang out. Mankind returned with
indescribable relief to its long interrupted, fondly cherished ordinary life, and Lawrence was left once more moving alone on a
different plane and at a different speed."
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T.E.Lawrence | Prince
Feisal | General Allenby | King
Hussein | Dahoum | Winston Churchill
| Lowell Thomas | Auda
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