 David Irving[Photo by Michael Hentz, for The
New York Times]Letter to the Editor of
The Daily
Telegraph[Not published] To: The
Daily Telegraph
attn.: "Peterborough"
One Canada Square
Canary Wharf
London E14 5AR |
|
London, September 26, 1997 Sir,
I
T IS a national scandal that our government, which has been
swift to fund an exhibition tacked onto the Imperial War
Museum, of all places, dedicated to the Nazi genocide,
should find no means to preserve the historic site at
Bletchley Park (your story, Sep. 26) where
Britain's two thousand wartime codebreakers worked to
provide the means, first to avoid our defeat and then to
ensure our victory.The work of Bletchley
Park, and of the rare geniuses - including a significant
number of outstanding Jewish brains - who worked there, was
an unparalleled achievement in which every Englishman can
now, after years of enforced secrecy, at last take an
enduring pride; the questionable and lop-sided new display
at Lambeth celebrates an aberration, a baseness of human
character which is alien to everything the empire stood
for.
Yours faithfully,
David Irving |
David Irving 1998