21/25 But the minute I touched Moslem places the Turks became fanatical. The Arabs, now, are different--fanatics, too, but with a new sort of fanaticism--new to them, I mean--the kind that made the French revolutionists destroy everything their ancestors had set value on. There are plenty of Arabs so full of this disease of Bolshevism that they would make it easy for me to desecrate what others believe is holy ground. But these idiots of English are worse than the Turks! They have stopped all excavation. They are so afraid of Bolshevism that, if they could, they would imitate Joshua and make the sun stand still!" "Well, what's the idea ?" asked Grim, finishing his whiskey. |