Early editions last week carried a 1943 picture of SS troops in the Warsaw ghetto with a caption, repeating the text of the article, stating that “Poles killed more Jews than the Nazis” (“Polish move to strip Holocaust expert of award sparks protest”, News, p22). Historian Jan Gross’s claim, corrected for later editions, is that Poles killed more Jews than they did Nazis.
We said the BBC’s Dan Walker has “no recorded experience in current affairs” but he presented Afternoon Edition on Radio 5 Live for more than a year (Comment, last week, p35).
Heatherwick Studio has asked us to point out that while designer Thomas Heatherwick attended a meeting in San Francisco at Apple Inc with the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, in an unsuccessful attempt to raise funds for the London garden bridge project, before he had been selected by Transport for London as the designer of the bridge, he did not fly to California with the mayor. He was there to meet a separate commitment with Apple (New Review, last week, p4).
Animal corner: crocodiles are found in Uganda, not alligators (Dispatch, last week, page 2), and the beavers featured last week (News, p18) do not, as we said in early editions, live in the river Otter.
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