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Show PAGEIX- PROVO (UTAH) SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 2 6, ,193 SECTION TWO Lawrence Refuses Two ons Decora ti From King BY HENRY T. R U3SEI .L United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright 1931 in all countries :by ; United --Press. AH rights reserved.) PLYMOUTH, Engiund, April 23. (U)-Mow at Bucldhgham v palace he refused two decorations fronvthT hands of the .kin.? cfErigland himself, him-self, - was - revealed today for the' .first time by Aircraftsman T.AE. . Shaw, (Lawrence of Arabia 1, once, rah' army colone.1, today an air force private.' The man who during the war ousted the Turks from the desert des-ert andput Arabia on the map. 'After his work in rallying to -the allied cause thousandaof Arabs in the desert, the British 'government sought to reward him. It offered hinf money; be refused. h-it offered him high posts: he turned them down. .In, the same way no spurned dec-ct'aiion's. dec-ct'aiion's. which, he said, would have 'shut my mouth." .He said he w-ould not take a thing until the government load fuL Jfllfed: pi omteeg mad? by him to the Arabs on behalf of Britain. In Bpite. of these objections officials 'fiotJf'icd him that he had been'rec- ommended for two coveted honors: V. B. (commander of the bath) and p. S. O. (distinguished servict. order). .Despite his protests both the awards were "gazetted" and he was Mimmoned - to Buckingham pala.ct to meet the king. ,;I was ushered Into the presence of the king," he said today. "He was kind enough to chat about my job in the deserf Imagine my surprise when, in tjjtte of JYiy previous refusals to the government, the king motioned to two decorations which lay on a i.earby table and signified that. i, they were intended for me,! ; "Immediately I explained that - yhen officials suggested I was to be honored, I objected and declined, de-clined, ' Of course I apologized. I deplored the fact misguided officials dom should hav brought about thp4ave worked out hope4essly. ciicumsuanccs. Ana i toiu nimtnat by previous decisive cot to acceptH thetfecorMions must stand. Awkward Position f "Natui ally the wholethtfig was ' i 1 - . 1 fl - . 1 il. . inusi awKwaru. n. was neiiner me fault of the king, nor naine. The officials had no business to rec ommend me against my wish. . "Many versions of this incident have been circulated. .It is said that I went to the palace in Arab costume. I did hot. X was a colonel col-onel in the irmy at the time and went in my uniform. "I have heard it' said that the king pinned one decoration to my breast only to find that I had removed re-moved it when he went to -pin the second oiver-This and other versions msy sound better than the original, but tmv are not ture. Nothing could have been more added to" his (tHa fcing'sV-uttlo.ue collection of war souvenirs, Lawrence Law-rence suggested several objects including in-cluding one which had ben intimately intim-ately connected 4with the Kaiser. The king smilingly declined the latter. "Finally he accepted a rifle. Speakingjf-4he decorations which be refused Lawrence pointed out that he was actually in doubt to this day to the legal status of his case. ."I am in the unusual position cf having refused decorations which have been gazetted. To the bea.t of my knowledge the announcements in the Gazette have not been cancelled. can-celled. So I presume that legally I might be entitled to them although al-though I refused to take them frorh the king. But the matter Is indifferent indif-ferent to me." Referring then to the circum-. stances which led to iris refusal to be decorated, Lawrence recalled that his object was to obtain from the government the fulfillment of promises he made to the Arabs on behalf of Britain Jn exchange for Arab participation in the war on the allied side. "I could not get satifcfaction at the time," he said, "so when they tried to reward me and at the same time let down the Arabs, naturally I refused. This, of course, gave me a free hand. They failed to shut me up. I told them all what I thought of them. After a long fight in which I was fortunate in obtaining the support pf Winston Churchill, I secured for the Arab? all that was humanly practical and possible to secure." A number of the promises made to the inhabitants of the desett, said Lawrence, never could have been carried out. At one time, for instance, he said, there wa3 talk of creating an Arab federation, t "On paper this looked all right," hcsaid. "but in practice it would T PHYSICIST Hornsby And Son Get The Cubs Started Right awkward and unpleasant than what ; actually occurred." , . Although, in refjsing the decollations decolla-tions Lawrence complained bitteilv , tohe king of the manner in which , the cabinet had dealt with the Arab question, no ill-feeling resulted. "The king," he said, "was most kind and understanding." Several months later Lawrenee--fgain saw the king. This tinre he " tent to Buckingham palace in Arab 'costume. He actd as interpreter between the king and Feishul, King of Iraq. The king recalled Law-tehee's Law-tehee's previous visit on this occasion occa-sion ano spoke to him cordially. :When Jhe king heard that Law-rence Law-rence vas publishing his now famous fam-ous "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," he -instructed his secretary; liord Stamfordham, to .offer a subscription. subscrip-tion. He meant, thus, to forestall "A possible gift by Lawrence because he had learrielTof the high value-of value-of the edition ($150). But Lawrence wrote to say that in calculating sale price of. the edition he hVd planned to- work off a special presentation pre-sentation .copy for the king. He asked therefore, that the king should be willing to accept one in tho circumstances. The king agreed. The'5bok subsequently was placed ' In his valuable library. Aicrpts Rifle-r- On one visit to the palace when Lawrence was describing his war - in "the' desert in- answer to question ques-tion the king asked him if he did notTiave something hich could be 'Impossible l'lan v The point was, he said, that vast fltetches or aesert would nave sepal sep-al ated member tribs. There could not, he added, have existed proper political unity between tribes who had no telephones, telegraphs or railways connecting their respective territories; camels-being the sole mode of transport in the desert-. His struggles o obtain "what he wanted for the Arabs during the Paris Peace conference, he said, were complicated by Franco-British bar-gaining. K Among the French, heaid, Cle-menceau Cle-menceau behaved splendidly toward him and tlie Arab3. But in the"end. Britain induced France to part with Mosul in exchange for a mandate ever. Syria which they received at the expense of the Syrians. At one time matters had reached a serious stage Lawrence was asked to accept an important post in connection with Arabian affairs. He refused. He said he would hot work under certain members of the cabinet. He had warm words with one of them m particular at a meeting in Downing street. Finallyhe was induced to accept STUDIESWIKtiS Winds which swept Proyo and vicinity Wednesday reached a maximum velocity of 50 miles per hour, but - were more vigorous south of Provo, according to Dr. Wayne B. Hales, professor of physics at Brigham Young university univer-sity who actually measured wind speeds during the "blow" which upset many trees and caused some little.damage in Utah county. These high winds, Dr. Hales said, were due to a .center of extremely high pressure just east of the Rockies followed by' one of low pressure west of Utah, probably in' Nevada. Dr.. Hales has been carrying on experiments with the winds for some time. Assisted by 500 high school . boys who are studying science sci-ence in the schools from Richfield to Richmond he has been making observations of - spring winds.. Through the cooperation of these young men, Dr. Hales has a fairly accurate geographical distribution of winds and is fairly well acquainted ac-quainted with their direction and velocities. Pilot. Balloons The reports of these high school students are 'supplemented by more detailed and accurate observations made by the students of the physics phys-ics department of Brigham Young university - and by Dr. Hales himself. him-self. Numerous pilot balloons three feet in diameter and filled with hydrogen have been released and observed through a transit. These ba lions 'rise at a constant rate of 600 feet per minute. By observing the angle of elevation and the azimuth, or drift, velocities and directions may be determined at any altitude. Some of these observations ob-servations have continued 27 minutes min-utes or until balloons have reached an elevation of 15,000 feet. Surface observations havgJwen made by means of a windmeter extending ex-tending from five miles into the canyon to a point eight miles beyond be-yond the mouth of the canyon. Readings extending over a 12-hour period have boon made to determine deter-mine the hour 'when canyn 'winds reach their maximum velocity. The winds of Spanish Fork canyon have been found to be the most constant or any or these caryons. Every morning, according to these observations, very vigorous winds appear often, reaching a velocity of 23 miles and then dying out about 8 ov $ o'clock in the morning. This maximum velocity is reached about one mile out in the valley from the- mt nth of the canyons. Dr. Hales said. These winds, however according to measurements, are comparatively comparative-ly shallow reaching a height of between be-tween 1600 and 1800 feet. 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