Privacy, security and public opinion

[Owen Lewis]

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From: "Ian Goodyer" <whgu0007@ermine.ox.ac.uk>
To: <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
Sent: 03 June 2000 23:45
Subject: RE: Privacy, security and public opinion


> A message from John Brazier that he has asked me to forward to the list
> for him.
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> Khan, 1967 Edition, Notes on P 1028:
> '297 Zimmerman admits: Tuchman 183.'
> At the start of the notes for Chapter 9 ('Room 40'), p. 1020, he has a
specific list of sources. The key one is:
> 'Barbara W Tuchman, The Zimmerman Telegram (New York: Viking Press, 1956),
is a masterly study of the political circumstances surrounding the telegram
and its publication.'

Correct. What he does not do (does Tuchman?) is to give one or more
contemporary and reliable sources (captured German archives?) One assumes
that if she had given a primary source, Kahn also would have adopted it.

> PS No, I don't have Tuchman's book, but I am in the market ...

I don't blame you. I have her '1914, The Guns of August' which I found both
seminal and very readable.


FWIW, I studied for the General Staff selection examination about 1972. The
Zimmerman Telegram affair was studied en passant in the International
Affairs and Politics module. The general academic consensus, as offered by
the university lecturer (whose name I'm afraid I have long forgotten) who
gave the relevant seminar, was that the truth was uncertain but that on
balance the evidence supported the view that the telegram had been faked.
Regrettably, I no longer remember any of the cites with which he supported
that view.


Owen Lewis