Your continuing denial of British war crimes in Austria is on a par with the Foreign Office's decades-long protection of the interests of the Soviet Union, when it persisted in ascribing against all the evidence responsibility to the Germans for the Katyn Massacre, and exultantly prevented erection of the memorial to our murdered allies in Central London. Indeed, the Foreign Office was embarrassingly found defending its pro-Soviet stance right up to the time when the Russian Government inconveniently released documents confirming what everyone else had known all along: namely, that the massacre was perpetrated by the NKVD in 1940.

It was only the intervention of Lady Thatcher that frustrated the Foreign Office's similar attempt to prevent erection of the memorial to the Victims of Yalta at its present site beside Brompton road. However the time is likewise not far off when your Department's complicity in these monstrous crimes, together with your current campaign to stifle knowledge of their occurrence, will come to be fully exposed. Indeed, I am using your and Mrs Mackenzie's equivalent of 'Holocaust denial' as introductory quotations to a paper shortly to be published in an academic symposium on the international laws of war.

Yours sincerely,

Count Nikolai Tolstoy

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