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Someone just sent me this - an important piece of history as millions died, I believe. I have just read a review by Andrew Roberts of the latest volume of the Churchill papers by Martin Gilbert. The volume is titled "Normandy and Beyond: May-December 1944, The Churchill Documents, Volume 20." In the review, Roberts writes: This volume contains President Roosevelt's refusals to Churchill's repeated requests for American shipping to transport Australian wheat to Bengal during the terrible famine there. "I regret exceedingly the necessity of giving you this unfavourable reply," the President wrote on June 1. Roberts goes on: "Those revisionist historians and journalists who attempt to blame Churchill for the famine and its aftermath should read this volume, which absolves him from their ahistorical and fundamentally ignorant attacks." ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BASA list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BASA&A=1