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Marshal Lyautey was the outstanding example in this generation of

a great soldier making himself yet greater in peace than in war. In Indo-China and Madagascar, and, of course, supremely in Morocco, he brought civiliza- tion to savage tribes, drove roads through deserts, built cities and established security. Like Virgil's Roman, pacis imposuit morem. Kitchener in Egypt and Plumer in Palestine are partial parallels, but on no comparable scale and with no Comparable difficulties to face. And, pace Sir George Arthur, neither Kitchener nor Phimer had M. Andre Maurois as his biographer.