Real History and Admirals and modern War Criminals your main Adolf Hitler index Alphabetical index (text) I wonder if these ambassadors ever realized the responsibility they bore, in terms of later blood and suffering? January 6, 2003 (Monday), London A SUPPORTER sends me an angry e-mail, because I rejected “Salvadore Astucia” (a rather pretentious pseudonym for an American) for last year’s Cincinnati weekend as a speaker.
I reply: His rhetoric was so violent that to have associated Cincinnati with it would have destroyed what I have spent five years building (and last year’s function lost ,000, which is why I am very carefully nurturing it). My website, books and activities have a very carefully orientated thrust; if another person wishes to propagate more violent views, that is his First Amendment right, but then he must build, finance and operate his own platform! Off to Cambridge today.
At Churchill College I work on the rest of the 1944 diary of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay ; he was General Dwight D Eisenhower’s naval chief during the Normandy invasion. The archivist tells me he cannot recall any other person having bothered to read the pudgy blue leather-bound volume.
It has taken four days’ hard work to read the tiny, spidery pencilled handwriting of the 1944 volume, and to transcribe from it what I need for Churchill’s War , vol. iii, about 60 pages of single spaced typing; the diary ends on December 31, and there are a few brief notes for 1945 and jokes, including one about Georgie Patton , on the back fly-leaves. Then silence. I go