Real History and the Press Documents on the Fight for Real History David Irving [Photo by Michael Hentz for The New York Times] Letter to the Editor The Independent London, Andreas Whittam-Smith, Esq., Editor, The Independent, London E14 5DL today’s ” AR-online” again (Not for Publication. Personal to The Editor. Urgent) November 29, 1991, 8 a.m.
Dear Mr Whittam-Smith, I have to-day seen Gita Serenyi’s rather bilious attack on me, published in The New York Times Thursday. What a pity that she did not have the courtesy to contact me, as did your other reporter when I was in Buenos Aires! There are at least a score of defamations and easily demonstrable inaccuracies. May I take it that I can have proper space for a reasoned statement of my own case, subject of course to your usual prerogatives as Editor?
If your secretary would phone or fax an affirmative to me, I would have the copy with you on Sunday. Clearly a reader’s letter alone would not suffice for such a weighty attack on my integrity. Yours faithfully, David Irving