[In talking to an Arab nationalist leader] I said complete independence was what we ultimately wished to give. "My lady" he answered—we were speaking Arabic —"complete independence is never given; it is always taken."
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Gertrude Bell
The Queen of the Quagmire By Rory Stewart in the New York Review of Books.
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