Dear Sir

Documents on the Fight for Real History

David Irving

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Letter to the Editor
The Times

January 30, 2000

[published]

The Times
• Letters to the Editor •
1 Pennington Street
London E1 9XN

London, January 30, 2000

Sir,

"Churchill 'offered land to Mussolini'"

I investigated those alleged secret Churchill/Mussolini letters exhaustively in 1982, and was eventually shown the two "1940" letters that your article speaks of. The Chartwell letterhead was hopelessly wrong, and both Churchill writing to Mussolini and the latter, replying, had seemingly typed the same elementary spelling error ("wich"). The same source later provided the Hitler Diaries to your newspaper. . .

Yours faithfully
David Irving