Exhibition's warning from history
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1590955,00.html
Ian Black
Thursday October 13, 2005
The Guardian
Lawrence of Arabia told the cabinet at the end of the first world war
that there was no case "for separating Sunni and Shia Arabs", an
extraordinary foreshadowing of the issues at stake in this weekend's
Iraqi constitutional vote, overseen by US and British occupying forces.
TE Lawrence's ideas are shown in a recently unearthed map that is one
of many uncanny links between past and present in an new Imperial War
Museum exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of his death in 1935.
Winston Churchill led mourners at the funeral of the national hero and
writer of genius mythologised for his role in the desert war against
Ottoman Turkey. "From the sands of Arabia to the mother earth of
England," intoned the Pathe newsreel as "the soldier-philosopher who
rallied the Arabs to our cause" was buried.
Ian Black
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/06394d9ef828ba61
T.E. Lawrence
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/196b75f745d43b38
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