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Tim
Ash
of Kildrummy
Technologies, Shetland Isles, writes Friday, July 20,
2001
Victory For Academic Freedom
I AM very pleased to hear that your appeal hearing was unsuccessful.
This represents a major victory of academic freedom over a traditional enemy of the truth.
No reputable historian should resort to the courts to silence their critics.
Tim
Ash
Kildrummy Technologies Ltd
DAVID
IRVING writes: A
I AGREE. Prof. Lipstadt however chose to stay silent, I did not oblige her to. She took the Fifth, as they say in the USA -- the traditional out-route of the crook (vide Jeffrey Archer). As for silencing ones critics: was it not Lipstadt who pressured St. Martins Press not to publish my book Goebbels. Mastermind of the Third Reich, on which I had labored for eight years; and was it not Prof. Peter Pulzer, professor of politics at Oxford, who pressured Macmillan UK Ltd into violating all their remaining contracts with me (in return for the promise of more academic authors from Oxford); which gentle pressure so petrified my editor in chief at Macmillan, Roland Phillips (husband of managing director Felicity Rubinstein), that he on that same day, July 6, 1992, ordered all my remaining books secretly destroyed, without -- as he further directed -- anything of this leaking out to the press or public, let alone to me. Come to that, who ordered the mob violence that three times prevented the Oxford Union from allowing me to debate with academics and students there? Who is silencing whom, I ask?
David Irving