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Arab Revolt

by Bruno Roger Vitale

Beginning with Nasser's abrupt seizure of the Suez Canal the rest of the world has become more painfully aware each day of Arab nationalism and its fiery demands. From Gibraltar to the Indus, and beyond, the Moslem world pulsates with a vigor it has not known in a thousand years.

What is back of this modern phenomenon? How did it all get started? What have been the forces that lit the fuse we all watch these days in fear and trepidation?

News commentators and the pundits tell us much, but few

have explored the part that homosexual love has played in the drama. In the following article, Signor Vitale, an Italian scholar who has traveled widely in the Near East and done considerable study of the enigmatic career of Lawrence of Arabia, gives what he feels is the key to it all.

If he is right, and it appears quite likely that he is, every reader will have acquired a new perspective on the place and influence of homosexuality in current affairs and the history of the world.

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