Talk:Elizabeth Wiskemann

Nothing about William Empson? https://books.google.com/books?id=yL8UDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA251&lpg=PA251&dq=empson+condoms&source=bl&ots=QtSK2eZHd5&sig=51JZ5p7Lc4dQaOxftOE7qRMF0bE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizmIGq14bVAhXBKWMKHa-eBVUQ6AEIQTAD#v=onepage&q=wiskemann&f=false  108.213.116.58 (talk) 16:33, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Intentional or gone wriong ?
The article says : "During the war, she took a bold step that, through an unexpected series of events, led to a temporary halt to Jewish deportations from Hungary. Knowing it would be passed to Hungarian intelligence, she deliberately sent an unencrypted telegram to the Foreign Office in London that contained the addresses of the offices and homes of those in the Hungarian government who were best positioned to halt the deportations and suggesting that they should be targeted. Historian Martin Gilbert described what happened next that led the Hungarian Regent, Admiral Horthy, to halt to the deportations:


 * The immediate cause of Horthy's intervention was an American daylight bombing raid on Budapest on 2 July. This raid had nothing to do with the appeal to bomb the railway lines to Auschwitz; it was part of a long-established pattern of bombing German fuel depots and railway marshalling yards. But the raid had gone wrong, as many did, and several government buildings in Budapest, as well as the private homes of several senior Hungarian Government officials, had been hit. [Martin Gilbert, Churchill and the Jews (New York: Henry Holt, 2007), 212.]"

Is this not contradictory ? According to the first paragraph, the Allies intentionally targeted the civil buildings, but according to the second paragraph, the raid "had gone wrong". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marvoir (talk • contribs) 05:45, 29 September 2009 (UTC)