HIROSHIMA
Sir, —O. M. Brundall’s valuable contribution unwittingly supports my contentions. Why was the bomb not dropped on the Fascist Japanese War Cabinet, or on naval or military establishments instead of atomising several hundred thousand working people, who, in every country, never wanted war? Obviously, as events prove, the long-range policy of the ghastly few was to reinstate and rearm the same or similar militaristic scum in Japan and Germany for yet another go. British and American suppliers of finance and armaments to Japan before the second world war should have been executed too. Coincidental with betraying us into further Hiroshimas, Parliament raises politicians’ salaries while raising hell with Labour’s rational demand for increases in the very purchasing power needed to keep business solvent. Militarism paid for by workers is used against fellow-workers in other countries or against the workers themselves in economic crises. Lop them off now!—Yours, etc., MELVILLE B. MITCHELL. August 11, 1955.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27735, 12 August 1955, Page 8
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