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No full text14th February 1964.
My dear James,
Having carefully studied your markings on my
script, I am only relieved that you are not there to censor
me normally, before the talk is issued. Otherwise I
should not stand a chance!
But reading between the lines, I fancy that
you only seriously objected to one sentence, on page two,
and I would agree that this could sell have bean omitted.
Obviously one difficulty between us is that this is a
subject in which I have been intensely interested ever
since the disaster occurred in 1948, whereas you are fresh
to it.
However, I am glad that it has given you an
occasion to read the book and, assuming silence is consent,
that its figures are unanswerable. It is a matter of
fascination to me that, having done these talks for some
12 years, with extreme freedom and - I am afraid - often
with much greater irresponsibility than I showed on this
occasion, I should be faulted on this one subject on the
scandal of UNWRA. Your reaction does at least prove
my central point, which is that there is a conspiracy of
silence. I only made the mistake apparently of thinking that your service was the place where it could be
broken. I solemnly promise not to do it again.
Yours sincerely,
R.H.S. Crossman.
James Monahan, Esq.,
BBC
Bush House, Strand, W.C.
