Hello everybody,
@ Dunmunro,
to make a long story short :
1) Sir Henry Leach official position.
Do you have a written evidence of Sir Henry Leach NOT recognizing and supporting the Court Martial story involving his father being a real occurrence ? If you have it, please show it to me and everybody here in.
Please do not even try to use his " saga " definition of this overall incredible and very shameful series of events his father was involved into, ... because that is simply what I am demonstrating since years here in and with my last article with Alberto Virtuani, ... it is so incredible and shameful that one can hardly believe on it, so no surprises about his definition of it.
Until that moment, his books either written personally or fully supported with his supervision ( Wills ) , and photo captions ( Tarrant ) are the current reference in relation to his version of the facts.
When there is " No indication " please do not correlate any event with the other, ... in any way, ... just like I wrote above.
We have " no indication " of the argument list of their conversation on December 6th, 1941 ... just like we have " No indication " of the source of Sir Henry Leach information about the Court Martial story involving his father.
2) Adm Tovey reliability.
You wrote :
Kennedy was the source of Tovey's failing memory (and possible dementia but this is not referred to) via a letter written by Tovey's secretary :
You used two terms : " failing memory " and " possible dementia ".
Tovey secretary wrote : " in later life Tovey's memory let him down, and he was apt to exaggerate " and " his resentment and encouraged him to magnify the disagreements he had had with Churchill and Pound ".
I only read about a person with some memory failures mainly due to exaggeration of well known arguments because of that, ... especially regarding his disagreements with Pound and Churchill, which is more than normal and even possible on a very healthy person 30 years old.
Again, there is " No indication " of any dementia, and there is " No indication " of Adm Tovey completely inventing the main arguments, but only a tendency to exaggerate the disagreements.
It was Kennedy to correlate all those things with his note 2 on the Epilogue on Pursuit, referencing Adm Tovey reaction to Adm Pound defeating him, ... to his tendency to exaggerate his reactions to Adm Pound he had on Adm Tovey secretary letter dated 1973, ... regarding events written by Adm Tovey on 1954 ... so around 20 years before, ...
Kennedy wrote about the Court Martial request on the epilogue, ... and only correlated Adm Tovey reactions to Adm Pound to that secretary letter, ... not the whole Court Martial, ... but just the reaction to his possible exaggerations versus Adm Pound.
In fact, as a confirmation, Stephen Roskill two years after Kennedy ( 1976 vs 1974 ) still confirmed in writing the Court Martial story occurrence between Adm Pound and Adm Tovey on his 1976 book and did NOT care about the note written by Sir Kennedy on his book about Adm Tovey reliability.
There are " No indication " of dementia anywhere as far as I can read so please unless you can prove it, ... and demonstrate being a reality on 1954 on Adm Tovey, ... just avoid to use those terms and correlations.
What we still have and nothing is changed are Sir Henry Leach, C. McMullen and S. Roskill confirmation of the Court Martial request story between Adm Pound and Adm Tovey being a real occurrence according to them, into their respective writings and interview.
What is needed now is to find those 1954 letters, ... so we can all read what Adm Tovey wrote to Stephen Roskill on them ,... and what Stephen Roskill replied to him.
What was S. Roskill opinion about this all story we have it in written form clearly explained into his 1976 book as said, ... and we are talking about the Official historian of the Royal Navy regarding World War 2, ... not an average author of singular books, ... but an authority about those arguments, ... and you can read it here in :
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Bye Antonio
In order to honor a soldier, we have to tell the truth about what happened over there. The whole, hard, cold truth. And until we do that, we dishonor her and every soldier who died, who gave their life for their country. ( Courage Under Fire )