USE OF ATOMIC BOMBS

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27989, 8 June 1956, Page 15

USE OF ATOMIC BOMBS

Sir, —The artificially-created cold war hysteria, implemented to vindicate colossal taxation imposed on the world’s useful people for armaments spending in Order to boost monopolist’s economy, has now boomeranged! Montgomery informed our own Parliament years ago that we would have to fight Russia within 10 years or not at aIL AU wars are for loot of some kind. Ministers of the Prince of Peace yet hosts of the God of War are a contradiction emptying the churches Pray, bomb, and then prey is the sequence. Montgomery’s opinion, together with some opinions expressed in your column, denote, how frail the barque of human reason'sails upon the ocean of insanity in the world today. I should hate to be in the pattern of responsibility for starting another war —Yours, etc., MELVILLE B. MITCHELL. June 7, 1956.

Sir,—As Varian J. Wilson says, it is a tricky business deciding who, as aggressor, merits the H-bomb, and in delivering it properly. But even those who claim divine guidance (and sanction) in this matter Cannot surely believe that they can single out “the aggressor” only for death or mutilation. Women, children, the infirm, the unborn of this and future generations are all “punished" by this most undiscriminating bomb. How can such an action have any possible moral sanction? —Yours, etc., M.W. June 7, 1956.