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...without the Allied artillery and 'discipline' which could blunt the Arab guerrillas' effectiveness. With the mercenary Howeitat tribe, Lawrence crosses the Nehfu Desert to take the Gulf of Aqaba. (This is, of course, a convenient fiction; Aqaba was taken only after the destruction of the Hejaz railway...
...most difficult part of the changeover will come when the banks close in the middle of this week. A fleet of airplanes, 145 armored trucks and ten trunk railway lines-Britain's biggest convoy since World War II-will bring 6,000,000 checks, statements and credit documents from 14,500 banks throughout the country to London. There they will be converted into the new currency and shipped back to their place of origin. When the banks reopen next Monday, some 25 million accounts will be decimalized and up to date. Government departments, the stock exchange and subway system...
...boiler ripped, all the water trickled helplessly out, and the driving-wheels rolled down either bank. We were half-way to Pelican Swamp after six hours' travelling. I instantly determined to leave the old lady, bab and baggage, to the tender mercies of the railway officials, and I seized my carpetbag and walked the rest of the way in fifteen minutes...
...amused by personal attacks on himself, but was appalled when a Soviet book accused his first wife, Olga, of having worked for the Gestapo. She had actually been a partisan surgeon who died in agony after a Nazi attack. Stalin cut off trade between East European countries and Yugoslavia. Railway and postal services were reduced or suspended. Stalin's paranoia was so inflamed that between 1949 and 1952 he put tens of thousands of Communists in Eastern Europe on trial...
...will be harder to get and more expensive to accept than ever. In the face of what they regard as apathy from the West, some African governments have turned to the Communist powers for help. Tanzania and Zambia have begun construction of a 1,161-mile, $450 million railway that is being paid for with an interest-free loan from China; the Western powers declined to help...