today’s ” AR-online” again AR-Online recent issues: July 1999 June 1999 May 1999 April 1999 March 1999 February 1999 January 1999 December 1998 November 1998 October 1998 September 1998 August 1998 July 1998 Alphabetical index (text) “Tolstoy recalls that Prime Minister Tony Blair recently issued ‘some form of apology’ on behalf of Britain for the 19th century potato blight in Ireland, ‘though many historians and members of the public found it hard to
envisage in what way that tragedy could be regarded as a direct responsibility of the government of the day, let alone its late 20th century successor.'”
Peter Worthington , Toronto Sun, July 13, 1999 The Toronto Sun July 13, 1999 LETTERS Tolstoy: Apologize for Britain’s Shame By PETER WORTHINGTON N LIGHT of Britain’s declared determination to bring “war criminals” to trial for atrocities committed in Kosovo, historian Nikolai Tolstoy has urged in a letter to British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook that Britain formally acknowledge and atone for its “war crime” of forcibly sending men, women and children