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Russia, France and Belgium have refused to chip in a cent toward the Congo costs ($10 million a month), because they disapprove of U.N. policies there. Also for political reasons, Russia and most Arab states refuse to pay anything toward the United Nations Emergency Force in the Middle East. Pleading that they are broke, most of the newly independent African nations and the Latin American states have failed to pay either their regular budget charges or for any of the U.N. special operations. Total delinquency of the Africans is $842,000, of the Latins, $6,600,000. Also still outstanding...
Faulted Hero. But Lawrence's troubled spirit has not been allowed to rest in peace. Six years ago, Novelist Richard Aldington performed a literary autopsy on Lawrence's remains, charged that Lawrence was a downright fraud, possibly a homosexual, certainly a poseur whose role in the Arab revolt had been negligible. Old friends from Winston Churchill down rallied to Lawrence's defense, but the damage had been done. Lawrence's own confessions in Pillars made it clear that he had known from the beginning that the Great Powers intended to carve up the Middle East, that...
...account, the Turkish commander tried to assault him sexually; when he refused to comply, he was whipped, bayoneted and finally sodomized by the guards, then set free. As Rattigan sees it, the Turks had recognized Lawrence, and were aware of his homosexuality, hoped to break and disgrace him in Arab eyes...
Nutting believes that Lawrence began to see himself as a kind of latter-day Messiah. Shown an illustration for Pillars that pictured him as a godhead above the clouds looking down on the Arab revolt, Lawrence was amazed that anyone could capture so completely what at times he felt about himself during the desert campaign. But he also felt deeply that he had betrayed the Arab cause in whose name he fought. Fearful of his enormous talent for power and equally fearful of the potential consequences of such power if misdirected, Lawrence fled to the monastic security of the R.A.F...
Pyramids & Purges. Recalling the Syrian defection from the United Arab Republic, which opened Nasser's eyes to the number of "reactionary elements" surviving at home, he dissolved the National Assembly and his National Union Party, announced a complicated triple pyramid of electoral arrangements in advance of "free" elections, to be held perhaps next year. At the peak of the pyramid will be a single list of carefully screened candidates who "believe passionately" in Nasser's brand of socialism...