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LETTERS.(Letter to the Editor)

Quadrant

| July 01, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

MANNING CLARK

SIR: I note that Peter Ryan (May 2001) continues to pursue his campaign against Manning Clark, a posthumous campaign of the kind that Hal Colebatch deplores elsewhere in the May issue of Quadrant.

I note also that he castigates Michael Kirby's Manning Clark Lecture for inaccuracy in the same column that he mis-spells my name.

He suggests in the column that Don Watson and myself, whom he describes as two of Clark's warmest and worst-mannered defenders, have dodged and fudged the question of whether Clark was a good historian.

This surprises me. When Peter Ryan launched his attack on Manning Clark back in September 1993, I ...

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