Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-10-29
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON

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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
Consolidated Features Release.
NEW YORK.-A former political
officer in the Near East recent
ly told this writer that he consid-
cred the 1,00O-mile Iraq to Haifa oil
Fateful Sw;rl b tiI,e the he most most
OF World Destiny vitalmilitary
Around Col. Club saleIen n pr rle
aims second Lawrence of Arabia
looks after it diligently, now and
then lightly sideswiped in the news,
with word that he has taken to
planes instead of slow moving cam
els in making his rounds-as of to-
day.
He is Col. John B. Club,
commander in chief of the Arab
legion, quiet, stoOp-shOuldered,
studious man, who is quite I'M
like the romantic Lawrence. His
name might suggest as much.
Lawrence's mystical fervOr
somewhat diluted his hard pOlit-
ical realism. Nothing like that
with Colonel Glubb. He is
calm, precise political function
airy who has sunk % of his As
years in the job of keeping the
Arabs lined up amicably with
Britain.
Britain has never for a moment
moderated the danger of disaffec-
ton among the 250, 100000 of the
Moslem world, from India to Mo-
rocco. Propaganda box scores
haven't the fnality or clarity of
World Series returns, but in the pre-
war years observers generally gave
the decision to Germany and Italy
as against Britain for a more per-
sistent and sagacious radio pene-
tration of the moslem desert tribes.
The former would give the shieks
something like "My Desert Rose,"
with bit of boogie-woogie ara
besque mixed in and start them rug
cutting happily in every oasis. Brit
ain would counter with Big Ben
not so good, by all accounts. Then
again, the Axis powers bribed law
ishly and, when that didn't work,
threatened menacingly.
Obviously Colonel Club had
difficult assignment. Lawrence,
with Allenby, had the advantage
of fighting an offensive prOpa-
ganda war, moving in on the
crackup of the Turkish empire.
Colonel Glubb's long, lonely war
has been defensive, not only
against the Nazi-Fascist on
slaught, but against the kick
back of Lawrence's unfinished
political agenda.
Integrity appeared to be Britain's
answer to the opposing propaganda
barrage. That is what Colonel
Glubb, in person and in action, sig
nifies, and even sharply critical ac-
counts of Britain's propaganda agree
that he has been singularly affec-
tive.
In the hills of Transjordan, the
tribesmen call him Abou Heineik,
the Man With the Jaw. That has
to do with a scar on his chin, the
mark of bullet in the First World
war, in which he doubled in shooting
and politics, as he is doing in this
one.
Last May, fighting insurgent
tribes, he received two bullet
wounds and reports were that he
had been killed, but he recovered
and on October II was awarded
the Distinguished Service order
for keeping everything ship
shape in Iraq and Syria.
He is shrewd When he took COM
mand of the Arab Legion in 1882, he
didn't let everybody in. Realizing
perhaps that the quite human Arabs
Special Privilege, d dasb a Of nrile
Bright-Hued Outfits ilege along
Up Patrols Zest WIN thelr
equality and fraternity, like all the
rest of us, he made it quite some
thing to be tapped for membership
in the Legion. Then when they got
the pipe line camel patrol going, he
let the boys shop around for bright
red galabiehs, with long white
sleeves, scarlet cloaks, multi-hued
shawls and rope crowns on their
heads. He gave them the biggest
and stateliest camels he could find,
and they worked with both zest and
showmanship.
You couldn't very we'll mount
gun turret on camel hump and
Colonel Club, recognizing this,
worked in degree of mechanical
ton which already has been effec-
tive in checking forays of maraud-
ing tribesmen, melted by the Axis.
The colonel is Cornishman, not
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