Swiftsource Trivia on Wendy Ross IN December 1993 the NZ minister of immigration first warned Mr Irving that, although he had not yet even applied to visit New Zealand -- for which as a British subject he does not need a visa -- he would be denied entry. Wendy Ross, leader of New Zealand's Jewish community, took the credit in New Zealand newspapers for this. Hearing that Mr Irving was planning a speaking tour of Australia Sir Thomas Eichelbaum, a Prussian-born Jew and chief justice of New Zealand, and Wendy Ross, the head of the Jewish Defense League in Auckland, both hot-footed it to Australia to add their weight to gag him at all costs. Bruce Phillips of Auckland later revealed this in a reader's letter to Time magazine on April 18, 1996 (which they did not however publish).