Genius and Greatness
LLENBY never quite made up his mind about Lawrence of Arabia but suspected a streak of charlatanism in him. Lawrence, who didn’t easily give any man obedience or respect, steadily obeyed and respected Allenby. "His mind," he said once, "is like the prow of the Mauretania. There is so much weight behind it, it does not need to be sharp like a razor." And he spoke with humorous humility of the lion and mouse friendship between them. That was praise-the rare praise of genius for greatness.-(J. H. E. Schroder, reviewing General Sir Archibald Wavell’s " Allenby: A Study in Great ness" (Harrap), 3Y A, November 26.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 77, 13 December 1940, Page 5
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