keep up with the research

Submitted by mam (United States), May 18, 2006 at 15:34

1. Not verifying something is not the same as establishing it as false. And at any rate:

2. Shirer's book, while obviously a landmark, was written almost 50 years ago. Much scholarship has taken place since then, including Weinberg's, which, at any rate, you seem not have read. So, at the risk of redundancy, this is what he wrote: "The reference to the Armenians occurs in a document handed secretly to the British Government on Aug. 25, 1939; It was published by the British Government In the official series "Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1919-39," volume VII, 1954; the ribbon copy of the actual document as handed to the British Ambassador in Berlin in 1939 may be seen in Ambassador Neville Henderson's papers in the Public Record Office at Kew."

It is far from unheard of for new research to bring to light information that was not available in 1945 or 1960. That is what scholarship does.

3. You did not address my other points at all. Why?

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