T. E. Lawrence — Winston Churchill

Steve Newman Writer
9 min readApr 10, 2021

“ I did not meet Lawrence till after the War was over. It was the spring of 1919, when the peace-makers, or, at any rate, the Treaty-makers, were gathered in Paris, and all England was in the ferment of the aftermath…” Winston Churchill

One of the major contributors to T. E. Lawrence by His Friends is Winston Churchill, who knew Lawrence well after World War I, becoming fascinated by the man, and determined to do all he could to ensure that Lawrence’s abilities were not lost to the nation. He was also determined that Seven Pillars of Wisdom must be published.

Churchill, who’d experienced something of a mixed war to say the least, was cheered when he heard of Lawrence’s exploits, and writes:

“ I did not meet Lawrence till after the War was over. It was the spring of 1919, when the peace-makers, or, at any rate, the Treaty-makers, were gathered in Paris, and all England was in the ferment of the aftermath. So great had been the pressure in the War, so vast its scale, so dominating the great battles in France, that I had only been dimly conscious of the part played in Allenby’s campaigns by the Arab revolt in the desert. But now someone said to me: ‘ You ought to meet this wonderful young man. His exploits are an epic.’ So Lawrence came to luncheon.”

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