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A Radical’s Diary: October 14, 2005

WE HAVE SETTLED into the new Queen Anne's Gate apartment well, but in the morning a letter comes from the managing agents, F., stating that they will come to inspect…

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A Radical’s Diary: February 20, 2005

BOB has installed the new search engine I commissioned. I congratulate him, and he replies: "I am rather proud of it. I have been testing it quite rigorously. So far…

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A Radical’s Diary: June 21, 2005

AN email from a David Lock in Australia, a schoolboy. I had responded to his earlier query by directing him to similar letters from other pupils in the past.

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A Radical’s Diary: June 28, 2005

B. phones from London for a long chat. Jessica has gone off with friends to a birthday in Battersea. B. has trepidatiously included two bottles of shampoo in the birthday…

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A Radical’s Diary: May 29, 2005

DAY begins with MH of Kansas offering $22,000 for the third Hitler painting in Charles T.'s possession. Seems I went into the wrong business. Should have been an art dealer.

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A Radical’s Diary: February 2, 2007

THINGS get more interesting. At 6:40 pm, Ian B. writes to me: "I am in the process of obtaining seven reels of microfilm of Rudolf Höss's (picture below right) trial…

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A Radical’s Diary: March 5, 2007

AT 9:45 a.m. the Russians film a ten-minute interview on what we have seen at Auschwitz. They have given me six hundred euros towards our costs, which exactly meets our…

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A Radical’s Diary: February 27, 2007

SOMEBODY sends me a story from The Sunday Times, accusing Rolf Hochhuth of being a Soviet agent, or tool at best. What an extraordinary story, and what utter rubbish; he…

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A Radical’s Diary: October 16, 2011

AT LAST we have the pallets of Hitler's War in our Indiana storehouse. They arrived from England a few days ago. The new page on my bookstore looks great. Pity…

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A Radical’s Diary: July 11, 2012

BREAKFAST at the Banana Café at eight a.m. The heat here is so intense that Philippe, my old friend the owner, tells me that with 135 customers yesterday only two…

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A Radical’s Diary: August 15, 2012

AN AUSTRALIAN customer has difficulties, and I refer him to Mrs D.: "More and more customers nowadays are using Paypal," I comment to her. "A sign of the worsening Depression?"

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