LETTERS Inquisition news
Sir: William Cash's article on Jews in Holly- wood (`Kings of the deal', 29 October) may, perhaps, have been folly spiced with innu- endo, as its detractors assert, but the cor- rect riposte would have been to answer argument with reason, inaccuracy with fact.
Instead, your correspondents from Holly- wood (Letters, 26 November) have queued up to invoke the shades of the Holocaust: a cheap, cynical and utterly disrespectful way of preventing sensible discussion. There are aspirant Hitlers and Streichers aplenty in the world, without our seeing them where they do not exist.
Incidentally, Charlton Heston appears to have allowed his grip on mediaeval Spanish history to slip a little since El Cid. He may have seen `the Inquisition in 13th-century Spain', but I doubt whether many Spaniards did. It was not founded until the 15th century.
Owen Morgan
60 Oaktree Drive, Hook, Hampshire
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