Documents on the Never be photographed with a glass in one hand is one well known basic rule for a public figure; to which I must now add another – nor with an enthusiastic re-enactor in SS uniform.

Above : David Irving speaks after dinner near Washington DC [ Previous Radical’s Diary ] July 29, 2008 (Tuesday) Raleigh (North Carolina) WE set out at four pm in the white Avis truck for the Raleigh talk location, but our GPS leads us on a wild goose chase along the I-70 and eventually we have to ask locals, who send us five miles back into the town. It is not an ideal location — a Golden Corral restaurant concession.

It has what they gaily describe as a meeting room, which is complete with a loudspeaker booming canned music into the room and open internal gables letting all their sounds in and my sounds out. Four bearded biker types decide in good time not to allow me the pleasure of their presence; one gentleman asks me innocently if he can have a photograph of himself in Waffen SS uniform standing next to me, which apparel he has brought with him in his car outside.

He is serious enough, but I with no less gravity point to the disadvantages that such an image may cause in Washington, as it may well encourage fateful misunderstandings. WHERE IS DAVID IRVING SPEAKING IN THE USA? Apply for details . Register at the door, or cheaper online [ link ].

A NEW LIST OF CITIES HAS NOW BEEN POSTED Never be photographed with a glass in one hand, is one well known maxim for a public figure; to which I must now add another – nor with an enthusiastic re-enactor in SS uniform.

As I begin to speak, a gentleman whom I do not know plonks a midget tape recorder in front of me on the table — I dimly recall that a male voice this morning on the phone asked if I will permit recordings, and that I replied that, as stated in our invitation letter, these are not permitted; but that when he pleaded in a pleasant enough voice I relented, “but purely for personal use, and not for further dissemination.”

I thought no more of it at the time, and I do not do so even now as he seems like a White man and a scholar, as less politically correct Englishmen might still exclaim. Above : In Raleigh, North Carolina, a group remains behind for questions: the suspect pair are the couple in the white and yellow shirts,