Tuesday, October 18, 2005 [Greek Publishers Protest at Journalists' Union attempt to stop David Irving speaking] PRESS RELEASE OF GREEK BOOK PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION 73, Thmistokleous street, 10683 Athens, tel. 210 3303942 &endash; 210 3302523 Fax 210 &endash; 3301956. email: info@sekb.gr To our great surprise, we were informed of ESIEA's denial to offer its hall to Iolkos editions for the presentation of the book "The War between the Generals" by David Irving. The Book Publishers' Association expresses its opposition to any form of censorship wherever it may come from. Because we believe that the presentation of all books and the opportunity for writers to express their views &endash; and all the more when it come to expressing the results of their personal scientific work &endash; constitute fundamental principles of free circulation of ideas. Democracy calls for pluralism and its safeguarding as well as for the inalienable right to exercise criticism. Criticism, however, comes as the continuation of the respect for the different, which must be able to be freely expressed. We believe that ESIEA will re-determine its position and that finally the book will be presented in its hall, thus armouring freedom of expression.   David Irving answers nine questions for a major Greek newspaper, Eikones Magazine, Athens Greek newspaper fury whipped up against David Irving's planned visit (in Greek) Protestations en Grèce contre la visite prévue du négationniste David Irving Free download of War Between the Generals Our dossier on the traditional enemies of free speech   Heads-up for our Greek readers: David Irving speaks in Athens this October -- and in London on October 7   * The Canton Island episode. A reader has sent this useful extract from Collier's Year Book 1938 Archive. Its tactful treatment of this episode, in which Roosevelt exploited the Austrian Anschluss crisis as a diversion for his own little invasion operation, is noteworthy: "1938: International Law - Canton and Enderbury Islands. - Announcement was made in Washington, March 3 [1938], that for reasons of commercial aviation and naval strategy, the State and Navy Departments had studied certain [Website note: British] islands with a view to pressing claims to their ownership. Two days later formal claim was made to sovereignty over Canton and Enderbury Islands in the Central Pacific Ocean and to lands first visited by Americans in Antarctica. An American occupation expedition [Website note: A force of US Marines] landed March 6 on the Pacific Islands, and March 9 Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons that Great Britain "reserves her right over the islands." "The Department of the Interior April 1 issued a license granting commercial air rights on Canton Island. On Aug. 11 the Department of State announced that Britain and the United States had agreed to set up a régime for their common use of the two islands in connection with international aviation and communications, the question of title being left in abeyance 'for a protracted period'."