Of course my main point is that the "new historians" views are
seriously controverted within academia, as Professor Karsh's wrtitings and
the other scholars I mentioned indicated. Another example is Yehoshua
Porath, emeritus profesor of Middle East History at Hebrew University who
wrote an essay quite critical of one of the new historians school, Tom
Segev, in issue 9 of Azure magazine. Indeed the editorial in that issue
of Azure might also be of interest to people.
Shmuel Ben-Gad,
Gelman Library,
George Washington University.
Mme de Gramont...was called before the Revolutionary Tribunal to stand
trial for her life. "Had she ever aided the aristocrats who had escaped
abroad?" the court asked her. Mme. de Gramont knew that if she answered
yes she would be guillotined at once. For some seconds she looked at her
judges in silence, then, "I was going to answer no," she said, "but life
is not worth the lie."--as related by Whittaker Chambers in Life magazine,
September 15, 1947.
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