Frog-jumping

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32734, 11 October 1971, Page 12

Frog-jumping

Sir,—lt has been said that the twentieth century will go down in history as the age of mistreatment of animals. Surely this attitude has reached an all-time low in Bishopdale’s sick-minded gimmick—a frog-jumping contest. It is usually drunken bullies who mistreat small defenceless creatures for “sport” or “entertainment”. For grown men to do so in J cold sobriety and actually: I encourage children to do so, ! seems to me the ultimate in degeneracy, degrading both] participants and onlookers: alike.—Yours, etc., DISGUSTED EXBISHOPDALE SHOPPER. October 8, 1971. Japan and the West

Sir, —Amid all the protest over Emperor Hirohito’s globe-trotting, something has been forgotten. What of ‘■he West’s war crimes against Japan? Has the world so soon forgotten Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and why it tappened? The reason could not have been to bring peace, for Japan had sued for peace before the infernal machine dropped on August 6, 1945. The real reason was to prevent Russia’s honouring the Yalta Pact, that on August 8, 1945, she would enter the Pacific war; for had she done iso, she would have been entitled to a share of the spoils. 'The question should not be, I “How can Hirohito be accepted by British and American leaders?” but rather, “How can Hirohito accept the representatives of those States that slaughtered the inhabitants of two cities to protect Allied exploitation rights?” Birds of a feather, perhaps?—Yours, etc., J.D.C. October 9, 1971.