'I am inclined to think that we expect far too much from the official histories. After all, they are contemporary. The authors who compile them are almost certain to have been involved in some way with the events they describe. With the best will in the world they cannot be entirely unprejudiced.

So often, people make great play about being unprejudiced. Frankly, I am completely prejudiced, and I accept as a guide and as a warning, Goethe's saying :

'I can promise to be upright but not to be unprejudiced'.

TEDDER
( From the preface to 'With Prejudice',London 1966 ).

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