THE MESSAGE
NOT long ago the young men were talking, the young poets writing, of him in a Messianic strain—as the man who could, if he would, he a light to lead stumbling humanity out of its troubles. It is possible that the spirit might have moved him—but not probable. And it is difficult to see any way, compatible with his philosophy, in which he could have played such a role: his indifference to “politics” was as marked as his distaste for the arts of the platform. But at least I can say that, so far as I knew him, he seemed to come nearer than any man to fitness for such power—in a state that I would care to live in. For to his extraordinary powers of intellect and practical capacity he added an attitude, developed in self-discipline and reflection, that fulfils the one condition in which any evolution could be more than a swing of the pendulum. He had learnt the folly of the reforming energy that merely rebounds from wall to wall. Free from pettiness, freed from ambition, immeasurable in understanding, his profound respect for others’ freedom embodies the wisdom of the ages—the wisdom which reveals that life can endure, and manhood develop, only in an atmosphere of freedom.
The opportunity has gone—with the man. But nothing that he might have done is equal to what he may do—as a legendary figure. Legends are more potent than emperors or dictators. Others who worked with him were outstanding men: he would have been the first to wish their merits due recognition. Legend has made his fame as 100 to 1. Such magnification, which happens to a few men in each generation, is not true to reality. But it is true of this case that legend had a solid basis, of far greater content than usual. There will be nothing but good in it, if his real message is remembered, and not merely the romance.
For he was a message to mankind in freedom from possessiveness. In freedom from competitiveness. In freeing oneself from ambition, especially from the lust of power. His power sprang from knowledge and understanding, not from position. His influence is a living growth—because it is a spiritual message transmitting a spiritual force. The man was great: the message is greater.
In him the Spirit of Freedom came incarnate to a world in fetters.
Index
Aba el Naam
Abbasld Empirea
Abd el Kader, Emir
Abdul Hamid
Abdulla (of Zeid's bodyguard)
Abdulla el Feir, Sherifa
Abdulla el Nahabi
Abdulla, Emir character
attacked by the Wahabis proclaimed King of Irak
Abu el Lissal (Aba el Lissan)
Abu Obeida
Abu Raga
Abu Tayi, The
Abu Zareibat
Abyssinia
Acre
Adana (Antioch)
Aden note
Adhub
Egospotamoi
aeroplanes, Arabs reverence for
Afghanistan
Afuleh
Ageyli, the
Agincourt
Ahad, the
Aigues Mortes
Aima
Ain Kadeis
Aintab
"Air Force blue,"
Akaba—see Aqaba
Aleppo
Aleppo-Damascus railway
Alexander the Great
Alexandretta
Alexandria
Algeria
Algerians
Aqaba Gulf of
Arab Bulletin
Arab Bureau
Arab character
AM character
All Haidar
AH ibn el Hussein
AM Riza Pasha
Allenby, Gen. Sir Edmund meets
T. E. character and position
estine campaign adopts Chetwode's plan
official entry into Jerusalem
plans for 1918 campaign his
reinforcements taken away advantage
of reduced force plans for
taking Ma'an and Es Salt his
discrepant versions gets camels
for T. E.
plan for gaining all Palestine and
taking Damascus dependent
on Arabs by feint on
Amman, enabled to make coastal attack defeats Turkish armies arrives in Damascus recognizes
Arab administration strength of
Ms forces
organizes military administration of
occupied territory
Amanus Mountains
Amman
Anatolia
Anaieh, The
Anglo-Russian agreement.Angora
Anne, Queen
Antioch—see Adana
Anzac Mounted Division
Aqaba captured by Arabs
effects
Arab Congress
Arab Councils
Arab Northern Army note
Arab Regular Army
Arab secret 'Societies, so
Arab State
Arabia, physiography of
Arabs revolt planned attack 011 Mecca
on Jidda mode of warfare, i t, their mobility an
asset military and naval help from
British distribution and strength attitude toward purchasing aid at
cost of independence munitions surprised at Bir Said
their camp routine guerrilla
methods defense of Yanbo
move north attack south of
Medina independence of transport capture of Wejh its
effect on the course of the revolt
on relations with British mF
port of fresh tribes blow up
railway at Toweira other raids raid on El Arish, ISI their ultimate aim character
of their problem raid on Aba el
Naam march toward Aqaba ff
raids on railway attack at Abu el Lissal. don
tunics of dead foes take Kethira and Khadra "treachery," loot at train-capture
rewarded at Aqaba
in Palestine campaign cooperate
in 1918 campaign enter
corn-belt start move on Tanla "battle," in move on
Amman and Es Salt # dismayed
by reports of British failure at Amman, S foolish attempt to attack Ma'an
directly success at Semna
their irregular methods their
share in ShunetMmrin failure
how handicapped by British aid
delighted by gift of camels bad
period during T. E.s absences, bombing raid at Mudauwara dissension among chiefs their vulnerable side respect
for British planes
take Deraa pleased by Barrow's
capitulation march toward Damascus take the city
assured by Great Britain of recognition representatives at
Paris Peace Conference ff
Arfaja
Armenia
Armenians
armoured cars, t i t note
Ashraf (Sherif), the
"Asia Corps,"
Aspern, Battle of
Asquith, H. T.
Aster, Lady
Atara
Atatir, the
Ateiba, the
Atwi
Auda character
Australian Mounted Division
Auxiliary Air Force
Ayas Bay
Ayubid dynasty
Azraks
Baalbek—see Ras Baalbek
Bacon, Francis
Badajoz
Bagche tunnel
Baghdad
Baghdad railway
Baha, T. E camel
Bair
Baker, Sir Herbert
Balbo, Gen.
Balkan War
Barada gorge
Barrow, s86, Bartholomew
Basra
Batra note
Beach, Col.
Bedouin (Bedu, sing,), ii8
Beersheba, I S I 222 note
Beersheba Arabs
Beirut
Beisan
Belgium
Belinda
Bell, Gertrude
Ben
Ghabrit, SiKaddour
Bengal Lancers
Ben-my-Chree
Beni All, thea
BeeiAliyeh, the
BeniSakhr, the, toi
Bieberstein, Baron Marschall von
Billi, the
bionomics
BirAbbas
Bir el Waheidi
Bir Said
Birijik
Birkenhead, Lord
Blandford
Blucher, Gen.
"Blue Mist T. E.'s car
Blunt, WilfridScawen
Boers mobility
Bols
Bolshevik Government
Borton
Bourcet
Bovington Camp
Boyle, Capt.
Bozanti
brass band, Arabs pride in
Br£mond, Lieut.-Col., Breslmt
Bridge of Lodi
Bristol lighting planas
British Admiralty
British Agency, Cairo
British Air Forces in the Middle East
British Air Ministry
British Army—failure at Gaza its
cost in lives its aid needed to free
Syrian Arabs officers useful in railway
raids in Palestine campaign-? need to abandon mass method of
warfare reinforcements
bombards Gaza strength in 1918
campaign cross Jordan, occupy
Es Salt and Amman results of
raid plans for breaking railway
at Ma'an failure at ShunetNimrin forces proceed toward
Damascus ff to Kiswe and Jebel
Mania into Damascus
British Cabinet War Committee
Eastern Committee
British Colonial office
British Exchequer
British Foreign Office
British General Staff (in Egypt)
British India Office
British Interdepartmental Conference
British Museum expedition
British War Cabinet note
British War Council
British War Office
British Zone
Brough-Superior motor-cycle
Buchan, Col. John
Greenmantle
Bulfin
Bulgaria
Bulgarian Atrocities
Burga
Burmester, Capt.
Buxton, Maj. R. V.
Cadi, Maj.
Caemerrer
Caesar, Julius
Cairo
Cairo Conference
Callwell
Calshot
Cambrai
Campbell, Sir Walter
Cannae, Battle of
Cape, Jonathan
Caporetto
Carchemish Carlyle, Thomas
Carmei
Cattewater
Caucasus
Chamberlain, Austen
Chaplains
Ghauvd
Chaytor's force
Chetwode, Sir Philip
Chrysostom, St.
Churchill, Lord Randolph
Churchill, Winston note
Civil War, U.S.
Clausewiti, Marshal von
Clayton, Brig.-Gen. Gilbertg
Clemenceau, Georges
Cobbold, Lady Evelyn
Communications, enemy, how intercepted note
Composite Forcesst and 2nd
Conde, Prince
Conservative Government
Constantinoplefr 50. 55.Corfe Castle
Council of Ten
Cox, Sir Percy
Coxe, Marlborough
CranweU
Creasy, Fifteen Decisive Battles
Crecy
Crimean War
Cromwell, Oliver
Curion, Lord
d'Abernon, Lord
Daily Mail
Damascus
preliminaries of British approach to
forces converge
on exits closed
city entered disorder new
govt, planned-g cleaned up
taken from
Feisal by French
d'Annunzio, Gabriele
Dar el Hamra
Dardanelles
Darfur
Daud
Davenport
Dawnay, Alan
Dawnay, Brig.-Gen. Guy
Dead Sea
Delagha
DemetriusPoliorcetes
Deraa note
Desert Mounted Corps
Devonshire
Dhahriye
Dbiab
Dhuleil bridge
Dhumaniyeh
Dizad
Djelaia, meaning of
Dorset
Doughty, Arabia Deserta
Doyle, A. Conan
Drake, Sir Francis
Drigh Road depot
Druse Arabs
Dufferin
Durham
Ed Damiye
Edom
Egypt during the
World War menaced by
Hejai railway
Egyptian Camel Corps
Egyptian troop
Eighth Army Corps
El Afule
El Alas
El Arish
El Atrash, Sultan
El Auja
El Eime
El Ghair
El Ghazale
El Houl
El. Huweiz
El Jefer
El Xurr
El Meira
Enver Pasha
Er Remta
Erierum
Es Salt
Esdraekm, Plain of
Essex Regiment
Eugene, Prince
Euphrates
Eury-alus
Evans
Eylau, Battle of
Fabian strategy
Fahad
Fakhri Pasha ofe
Falkenhausen, von
Falkenhayn, Gen. von
Faraifra
Fairaj
Fayoum
Feisal, Sherif as a leader of the revolt, his
difficultiesi character
dispute with Hussein goes to France and England at Paris Peace
Conference ff retort to Pichon
accepts French offer returns to
Syria proclaimed King accepts
French ultimatum seeks help
in England given Irak
by British
Fejr
Fetah, the
Feuquieres, de
Meld Service Regulations
Fifth Brigade
Fifth Cavalry Division
Fiume
Foch, Marshal reported conversation
with T.E.,357
Fontevraud
Ford cars
Forty-eighth Division
Fourth Cavalry Division
Fox
France—on British plan to attack Syrian
railway her interests in Syria historic basis for claim on Syria her assurances from the British joint declaration on Arab sovereignty told by Picot to make .England
yield Syria opposition to
T.E. to Feisal at Peace
Conference compact with
Feisal delivers ultimatum to
Feisal and takes Damascus from himi,333
Frederick the Great
French Foreign OfficeJI
French General Staff
French Revolution
French West Africa
Galilee, Sea of
Gallipoli
Garland, Capt.
mine
Gasim
Gaza deceptive plan to attack, to
mislead Turks
General Headquarters note
Geographical Section of the General Staff
George V, King
German East Africa
Germans—on the Baghdad railway
on the Hejaz railway aid to
Turks in Palestine campaign
character of their retreat their e
ngineers
at surrender of Damascus
Germany—relations with Turkey JF
alliance military and naval assistance leads attack on Russia on the sinking of the Goeben
ambitions in Arabia
Ghadir el Ha
Ghalib Pasha
Ghaiala, Lawrence's camel
Goeben
Goltz
Goslett
Gouraud, Gen.
Grandmaison
Graves, Philip
Graves, Robert
Great Britain—relations with Turkey in
19th century policy of compromise toward Young Turks at
outbreak of War forced to rupture
with Turkey policy in Gallipoli in Egypt
plan for attack on Syrian railway
balked by French relations with
Arabs ff pledges support
participates Jf its officials in
charge Govt, policy as to Kut British reputation for swallowing
protected territories pledges to the
Arabs disagreement as to
these among British officials
imperialism vs nationalism sacrifices
her pledge to the Arabs joint
declaration with France divided
position at Peace Conference fails
Feisal and Hussein opposes
T. E suppresses Irak revolta
cost of this and of aid In Arab Revolt gives Irak to Feisal and Trans
Jordan to Abdulla
Great Nefudh
Greece
Gregory, Gen.
Grey, Sir Edward
Groves, Gen.
Guibert
Gurkhas
Guweira, ltyjnote
Habban
Haifa
Haig, Gen. Sir Douglas
Hail
Emir of—see IbnRashld
HallatAmmar
Hama
HamidFakhriBey
Hatnra
Hanakiye
Handley-Page planes
Hankey, Lieut-Col. Maurice
Hannibal
Harb, the
Hardinge
Hardy, The Return of the Native
Haroun al Raschid
Harran
Hart, The Ghost of Napoleon note
Hauran, the
Hazaa, Sheriff
Hebron
Hedia
Hedley, Sir Coote
Hejaz, the note
Hejaz Operations Staff
Hejaz railway its real purpose, go, loi raided note
Helles
Henderson, Stonewall Jackson
Herbert, Capt. Aubrey
Hill
Hittites
Hogarth, Dr. D. G.
Holdlch
Homer, Odyssey
Homs
Hor, Mount
Hornby
Hotchkiss guns
Howeitat, the eating
customs among
Huleh, Lake
Humphreys, Sir Francis
Hussein, Sherif note proclaimed King dispute with
Feisal and T. E. proclaims
himself Commander of the Faithful on "the faithless English,"
character
Ibn Dakhil
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