Keneally

In the absence of evidence to support this view for none exists, Mr. Keneally resorts to insinuations and half-truths.

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Writing of the request by Lord Wavell, the viceroy of India, to President Roosevelt for U.S. shipping to bring grain to India in 1944, Mr. Keneally writes: "To Churchill, this was nearly as bad as collaborating with an enemy."

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Mr. Keneally quotes approvingly the writer Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, who stated that "there was no famine in the land" and that, as Mr. Keneally puts it, "food was taken out of Ireland to feed domestic needs on the British mainland."

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Mr. Keneally argues that military pressures "made it easier for those in authority to make choices that failed to meet, indeed worsened, the Bengali crisis."

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The Australian novelist Thomas Keneally—best known as the author of "Schindler's Ark" 1982, the inspiration for the movie "Schindler's List"—has written a book blaming Britain for two of what he calls "the three most devastating food shortages in modern history."

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“The list, itself a carbon copy of the original, has been ‘discovered’ amongst Keneally ` s research papers at the State Library of NSW who bought the documents from the dealer with no inkling of what they contained,” says Oz site J-Wire.

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A spokesperson for the State Library told J-Wire: When we bought Keneally ` s papers, there was no list of contents.

Schindler’s list carbon in Oz museum 2009

At Uluru the general slope of the great rock is reversed by a fold called Kandju, according to Keneally, “a benevolent lizard who came to Ayers Rock to find his boomerang.”

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Thedocumentis the original copy given to Keneally by Leopold Pfefferberg, who persuaded him to write the story, says the post, adding »»»

Schindler’s list carbon in Oz museum 2009

Mr. Keneally accuses British authorities in Ireland and Bengal of "choosing to feed the famine instead of the starving," a slur that he fails to support with evidence.

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