Time warp

"The public has been led into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information... The Baghdad communiqués are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows... We are today not far from a disaster."

T. E. Lawrence, (Lawrence of Arabia)
The Sunday Times of London, August 22, 1920.