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It was a privilege and an honor to appear in the pages of The International Herald Tribune. I will adhere to your admonition regarding The I.H.T.'s final issue, "But weep not." But I will shed a tear for a newspaper that I first began reading as a Fulbright scholar in Scotland some 40 years ago.
Since then, foreign travel and The I.H.T. have been synonymous. I have no doubt that The International New York Times will be a worthy successor. Said another way by our British friends, "The king is dead, long live the king!"
KARL INDERFURTH
Washington, Oct. 15, 2013
The writer, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, was United States assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs from 1997 to 2001.
To the Editor:
Bonjour, tristesse.
This is not a day for celebration but for mourning one of the greatest international newspapers.
Since 1967 I have rarely missed reading The International Herald Tribune. In Paris, Hong Kong, Addis Ababa, Yangon, Havana, Cape Town, Gstaad and even Bridgehampton, N.Y., where a local store owner ordered it from New York City for the months that I was there. In Yangon, we would drive downtown for lunch at the Strand Hotel to read one of the only two copies in town.
For almost half a century The I.H.T. remained an icon in the printed press similar to what the Statue of Liberty represents for most Americans and most visitors to the United States. The I.H.T. was bought by readers of all nationalities.
Why such a change? Why cut out the world to put on the stamp of New York?
One doesn't create "a single, unified global media brand" by renaming a newspaper that was successfully and precisely that.
Your international readers do not necessarily want the "American prism"; they appreciate that your American correspondents are writing from outside the United States and are able to understand the world differently.
Quel dommage: a global paper has retrenched, just like the United States. Au revoir.
ALEXANDRE DE LESSEPS
Bangkok, Oct. 15, 2013
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