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1 “Jesse Jackson, Mayor Abe Beame,” The Alex Bennett Show, WPLJ, April 22, 1975. Radio broadcast.

2 “Robot Djecak,” Vijesti iz kulture, RTV Sarajevo, March 2, 1987. Television broadcast.

3 M. Bozovic, “Ja nisam takav sin oca,” Naša Borba, April 4, 1993, 5.

4 Prosecutor v. Stanislav Galić, appeals judgment, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, IT-98-29-A, November 30, 2006.

5 “So unlikely as to approach an impossibility,” writes Røed-Larsen of this book’s discovery, in Spesielle Partikler (597).

6 The existence and persistence of such a pad is briefly disputed by Røed-Larsen (598).

7 Røed-Larsen takes issue with Jean-Baptiste’s involvement (601), citing Catherine Hodeir and Michel Pierre, L’Exposition Coloniale (1991); Sylvie Pala, Documents: Exposition Coloniale Internationale (1981); and Sylviane Leprun, Le Théâtre des colonies (1986) as providing no mention of a rubber plantation at the exposition’s Indochina Pavilion.

8 Røed-Larsen claims they were actually married in the spring of 1934, citing an attestation de marriage he tracked down in an archive at the Halte-Garderie Municipale (603).

9 In one of his more passionate dissents, Røed-Larsen claims there is no evidence that such a conference ever took place in Copenhagen during the winter of 1937, pointing to, among other things, the fact that Niels Bohr was in the middle of a world tour at this point, engaged with visiting the USA, Japan, China, and the USSR. “Unless, of course,” Røed-Larsen writes facetiously, “Tofte-Jebsen is writing of another Bohr, another Copenhagen, a parallel Bohr in a parallel Copenhagen. . in which case I can offer no comment” (604).

10 “Another fabrication,” writes Røed-Larsen. “There is no record in the Japanese Imperial Army Hall of Records ( , Tokyo) of a Lieutenant Sakutaro Matsuo stationed in French Indochina during the years 1940–1945. There is a Warrant Officer R. Matsuoka and a Captain T. Matsumoto, but I must assume that neither of these are the man in question, unless of course Tofte-Jebsen can provide evidence to the contrary” (610).

11 The Phumi Hang Savat attack is challenged by Røed-Larsen, who points to the absence of any record or testimony of such an event. “Historical fiction disgusts me,” he writes. “No— all fiction , no matter its time or place, sends me into an existential tailspin. Why invent? Why invent when so much of the truth— the real truth —remains unknown?” (618)

12 Røed-Larsen notes that such a document, if it indeed ever existed, was never recovered.

13 Amazingly, both Tofte-Jebsen and Røed-Larsen agree on the existence of such a chart.

14 This was rebutted, tongue in cheek, by Per Røed-Larsen in his epistemological essay “Levetiden på sannheten” (1978): “Time and story have little bearing on truth; truth must be, by definition, a confluence of reality and reality alone” (24).