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Wednesday, 24th October 2007

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Sir: Norman Stone (‘What has this “genocide” to do with Congress?’, 20 October) raises the red herring of alleged forgeries without mentioning that ‘the professor at Princeton’ who claimed that the US ambassador’s memoirs had been retouched resigned the chair when it was discovered that it had been established by a $750,000 grant from the Turkish government. It is also nonsense to suggest that ‘on the whole historians who know the subject and the sources (they are very difficult) do not take the “genocide” line’. It is hard to find a disinterested historian who has taken the trouble to read the 1948 UN Genocide Convention and takes the ‘no-genocide line’.
There is a vast amount of unimpeachable evidence, much in James Bryce and Arnold Toynbee’s The Treatment of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-1916 (2005), which shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that the massacres amounted to genocide. Or is this a forgery too?

Philip Stevens
London W12

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A child of our time

From the economic and psychological bedlam of the global downturn has emerged a particularly dangerous false dichotomy: namely, that there is somehow a choice for ministers over the next few years between economic reconstruction and the repair of Britain’s broken society, and that the government (whether Labour or Conservative) must prioritise the former at the expense of the latter.

Diary

Anne Robinson

The daughter and I spent the last few days before the American election in Arizona.

Politics

Fraser Nelson

Fraser Nelson reviews the week in politics

The Spectator's Notes

Charles Moore

‘A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman’s famous “helicopter drop” of money.’ So said Ben Bernanke, now the chairman of the Fed, in a speech about how to ward off the ‘extremely small’ chance of deflation, which he delivered in 2002.

Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody

Tamzin Lightwater

Tamzin Lightwater's unique take on the week

Schoolboy errors

The Spectator on Deripaska-gate

Politics

James Forsyth

James Forsyth reviews the week in politics

Your chance to vote in the Spectator awards

James Forsyth

After a gripping week of political theatre in Manchester, James Forsyth invites readers to submit nominations for a new category in our Parliamentarian of the Year Awards: the prize for the Readers’ Representative