![]() ![]() "Letter to the Editor" The Times (22 July 1920).Freedom is enjoyed when you are so well armed, or so turbulent, or inhabit a country so thorny that the expense of your neighbour's occupying you is greater than the profit. Whether they are fit for independence or not remains to be tried."Report on Mesopotamia" The Sunday Times (22 August 1920).It is a disgrace to our imperial record, and may soon be too inflamed for any ordinary cure. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows. The Baghdad communiques are belated, insincere, incomplete. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. ![]() Quotes To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one’s tail. ![]()
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