Japanese-Russian Relations

Press, Volume C, Issue 29679, 24 November 1961, Page 3

Japanese-Russian Relations

Sat,--In reply to Mr Wheeler, perhaps few people recollect the “barbaric invasion of Russia in 1919” because there are few people left who are sure of all the facts. Most of the “barbarians” lie under wooden crosses on blood-stained battlefields. If the Japanese .have committed crimes and the Germans have become as savages, we do not have the right to judge one another. Nor will we ever have the right. It has been said that time will heal all wounds, and I say now that time will have to heal many more. Communism has become more deeply entrenched in .the countries weakened by war. This must make us more aware of the Red pattern of world conquest if we are to save' ourselves from

losing our individuality “This is the H-bomb era.” Veiled threats may soon become reality and peace may soon become war. From whom, our salvation.—Yours, etc., AWAKE. November 22, 1961. Sir, —Mr Wheeler is. trying to convince us that he is a strict neutralist. But in almost any correspondence concerning international affairs he favours and sides with the blind group shouting. “Get out, Yankee imperialists.” In his latest letter he has called Western people “imperialists and hypocrites.” I have never heard him use such strong words, if any at all, against the Communist bloc. Then he claims that “propaganda poppycock” is made of the Berlin situation. He then says that Russia was “barbariously invaded by Western hypocrites, and Fascist German savages.” While all this is true it would pay Mr Wheeler to consider the countries that Russia has barbarously invaded and occupied —Estonia. Latvia. Lithuania, East Prussia. Poland. Ruthenia. Bukovina. Bessarabia, to mention a few. The world will never forget that.— Yours, etc., ' NEUTRALIST? November 22. 1961.