London,
Dec 24 -- David
Irving's London office confirmed
that a package arrived on Christmas Eve
from Mishcon de Reya, the law firm
acting for Deborah
Lipstadt,
containing an application in the High
Court for the transfer to her of all Mr
Irving's lifetime research files and
possessions, currently seized by the
British government Trustee. They have asked for the case to be
heard on January 23
[2004].
Mr Irving is currently writing in the
United States.
The
Trustee, Baker Tilly Ltd., confirmed
this independently in a separate
message to Mr Irving this morning.
Attached to the two-page application
is a 150-page list of the items
claimed, including books, microfilms,
archives, and other possessions
assembled by Mr Irving in a forty-year
career of writing.
The Board
of Deputies of British Jews and
their director Michael Whine
(left) is secretly behind this latest
attempt to crush the British historian,
as Court documents reveal.
Mr Irving, who completed a 10,000
mile road tour of US cities on Dec 23,
said:
"Nothing surprises people
any more. The hate-filled
traditional enemies of free speech
are doing all they can to silence me
and my writings, but they will not
succeed. I have many friends too."
Lipstadt
prevailed in a widely reported
three-month libel
action brought against her by Mr
Irving in the High Court in Jan 2000,
after she smeared him as a "Holocaust
denier." Her US backers (including the
American Jewish Congress, Edgar
Bronfman, and Steven
Spielberg) and Penguin Books
Ltd, poured $8 million into the
courtroom to pay witnesses and hire a
team of conformist historians.
Lipstadt is currently completing
a book on the case entitled My
Struggle.
As her backers were not party to the
action, she made no application for her
costs at the end of the trial and Mr
Justice Gray, who heard the action and
Mr Irving's appeal against the costs
awarded to Penguin Books Ltd,
wisely made plain in his remarks that
she would not have been granted them if
she had.
AS
PART OF THEIR PRE-TRIAL attempts to
destabilise Mr Irving, a strategy of
which Lipstadt boasted in talks in the
Middle East, staff at the law firm
Mishcon de Reya paid for an anonymous
hate-wreath to be sent to the September
1999 funeral of his oldest daughter, a
cripple, with a card gloating at her
death (right).
Her counsel Richard Rampton,
QC, justified
this hatred cross-examining Mr Irving
in the High Court libel action.
Photo:
Hate wreath "This was indeed a
merciful death.
Philip Bouhler and friends." Bouhler,
Hitler's
euthanasia (mercy killing) chief,
killed himself in 1945.
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