With the Pilots' Dispute of '89-'90. . .
. . . how often must it be repeated that something approximating the true story, and the footnote details of lives blighted and wounds unhealable will not be told for years? In the meantime there is nothing to be served by
recriminations all over again or guesses at the plotting and intrigues that precipitated the disaster. And if those today who rate their former colleagues pariahs are unyielding in their contempt, all the more reason to hold back until it is possible to assess the veracity of much evidence as yet classified or in other ways withheld.
For those who turn a scornful eye towards history, Sir Walter Raleigh wrote in his preface to 'History of the World' :
"We may gather out of history a policy, by the comparison and application
of other men's forepassed miseries with our own errors and ill
deservings."