Re: Bletchley - more press articles

Letters in The Independent today :

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letters/letters-the-great-debate-about-islam-905361.html


and

From The Times
August 22, 2008

Bletchley Park : a fitting memorial to our enigmatic nature
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Dramatic work was done there, but it wouldn't have without two great 
British traits - secrecy and eccentricity

Ben Macintyre

The campaign to save Bletchley Park, the wartime codebreaking centre, is 
gathering pace. Last month 97 academics and scientists wrote to this 
newspaper calling for the site to become a national museum of computing, 
in recognition of the pioneering work carried out there in the Second 
World War. Thousands have signed a petition urging the Government to 
restore the building and rotting wooden huts where Hitler's supposedly 
unbreakable codes were unravelled.

The campaign has tended to focus on the scientific advances, the cracking 
of the Enigma Code and the role of the codebreakers in hastening the end 
of the war. Yet Bletchley Park also stands as a monument to two often 
undervalued aspects of the British character - secrecy and eccentricity.

The intelligence gathered there was, simply, the best-kept secret in 
history, and it was created and preserved by some remarkable, and 
remarkably unconventional, people. The Park should be preserved as a 
memorial to scientific and military ingenuity, but also to the triumph of 
discretion and human oddity, two vital British traits that have decayed 
along with Bletchley Park over the past half century..../snip/


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/article4582773.ece

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article4438202.ece