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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After leading the whirlwind Arab camelry to victory over the Turks in the World War, the late Lieut. Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence refused decorations and money, reputedly as a protest against Britain's weaseling on territorial promises made to buy the Arabs for the Allies. This tragic-hero role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Expediency | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Colonel Lawrence confessed: "It was evident that if we won the war these promises would be dead paper, and had I been an honest adviser of the Arabs I would have advised them to go home and not risk their lives for such stuff. But I salved myself with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Expediency | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

During the War Britain was also anxious to win the loyalty, brains and financial support of her Jewry, and part of the price she paid was the promise of a Jewish national home in Palestine, then as now preponderantly populated by Arabs.* But as of last week it was more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Expediency | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Last week, as college baseball reached the homestretch of its 80th season, major-league scouts reviewed the year's outstanding players. No. 1 pitcher of the season has been Fordham's Hank Borowy, son of a New Jersey hat manufacturer, who has been defeated only once in 13...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: College Baseball | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

When last week's Derby was over, the bookmakers were a gloomy lot. Blue Peter had finished four lengths ahead of the field, had cost them more than $5,000,000. But there never was a more popular victory. Leading his colt to the winner's circle, Albert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horseshoe Race | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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