David Irving replies

I AGREE wholeheartedly with all the nice things Joseph writes about me, though I cannot share his wholescale condemnation of the Americans.

Which Englishman was it who once said, “I enjoy being in the United States so much as an
Englishman, it gives one such an effortless feeling of superiority”? Oh yes, I know.

The English have always been arrogant, and I keep reminding parents there is nothing wrong about that: we pay large sums of money, if we can afford it, to inculcate arrogance in our offspring from an early age, in part by sending them to the appropriate schools dressed in straw boaters, top hats and tailcoats.
It was arrogance that won the Empire, and it was
Christian subservience and generosity — particularly towards émigrés and those who are now called “asylum-seekers” — that lost it.

But that is another story.