1920-22 Draft of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom – Page 47

Philby: I should therefore hesitate very much before giving them such a chance: for I could not trust my mind not to get me involved in yet another conspiracy. So I went to Clayton, and told him my affairs, and he arranged for the Residency to make telegraphic application to the Foreign Office for my transference to the Arab Bureau. The Foreign Office would see that directly with the War Office, for the Egypt command would be unable to handle the business. The Status? I would jib to say, happily. It was a crowded way to get out - but he was dealing with Syrian complexities into which I contrived no(...) (in the circle it says) getting the spirit of that first principle is not what the reader is led to think from this man's manner. and it was capitalist to be more in its path with all successes in the other matter in its beginning, and all was judged properly advised.