Files reveal Great War secrets of British literary heroes

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Files from the First World War released by the UK Public Records Office give an interesting insight into official views of leading literary figures T.E. Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling and Siegfried Sassoon. The military hierarchy had serious doubts about Sassoon's mental stability, believing that he must have been mentally disturbed when writing his pacifist works. T.E. Lawrence was suspected of having given fictitious accounts of his military service, while Rudyard Kipling failed to accept that his son had been killed in the Battle of Loos in 1915.

History, Records and correspondence, World War I, 1914-1918, Kipling, Rudyard, Lawrence, T.E., Sassoon, Siegfried

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Behind the collapse of a behemoth

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Investigations set up following the $20 billion collapse of BCCI indicated that the main operator in the conspiracy which brought the bank down was Abbas Gokal. He was charged in the UK with six counts of fraud and false accounting, and an Old Bailey trial began in Sep 1996. He now faces a lengthy jail sentence after having been found guilty of conspiring to defraud BCCI's creditors and depositors.

Banking industry, Officials and employees, Cases, Fraud, Bank of Credit and Commerce International Ltd., Gokal, Abbas

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