‘Dou
| Collins

THE $0th anniversary of the

ropping of the atomic
bomb on Hiroshima is upon:
us and the usual liberal song
is being sung.

You'know the words, The bomb :

hould never never have been
dropped. Nor should the second
bomb ‘on Nagasaki. Those were:
icist acts, A war crime,
A.TV series is due, starting

‘Aug, 6, which purportedly will give

“both sides of the story." We shal

Institute in weeetos put ine
what amounted! to a “we are e ALL

ws wath vs
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‘rack and field project.’

“On ‘behalf of: the. ‘Handsworth ‘

Secondary « School : Association :1
wish to express a large thank you io
the: North’: Vancouver - District

Council. for its. recent. unanimous «

decision. to; support athletics and
increase -funding” ~ for. the
: Handsworth Track and Field Project

~ by $110,000. °

The project can now proceed this
summer: after’ many. setbacks. dnd -
years ‘of planning. The present track
was built in 1971°and is no longer

safe. The ew facility will provide a”

400-metre ‘six-lane - training track

with a synthetic’ surface. Other fea-:

“tures include a: well-drained sand-
: based -sports , field, two long-jump
. pits, a pole’ vault, ‘shot-put, and -a
hi h-jump. area. ~The: track will be

: CLEANSING FACIAL :
SCULPTURED NAILS»

Sa thin & natural-looking

guilty” display. But veleran rage
Was so great that the plan had to be

iliered,

We've seen that sort of thing
hefore. The McKenna brothers put
out a documentary on the CBC
explaining how unfair was the
bombing of Germany. Our bomb-
ing bad, their bombing good?

There was similar hand wring-

ing over the internment of the

Japanese in Canada in 1942. The
‘vets Who did all the sobbing must

“have believed thatthe Japanese of

that day would have been up on
Seymour Mountain firing down en
their racial brothers if the
emperor 8 fleet had appeared | in”
English 8B jay.

Such crities have one ‘thing j in
common. They weren't around then
or were still in their baby carriages.

Or, like apologist John Kenneth
“Galbraith, were fighting the war

from Washington.

Ia SO years {hive never come
across anyone who was in battle
who objected to the bomb, That's
because their asses were on the
line, Some cried for joy when they;
learned they wouldn’¢ live to
storm those Japanese beaches after

fy
all. :

‘The Galbraiths hold to the view
that the Japanese were about ty’sur-

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acciedited oy: ge Athletics ‘and

will be suitable for local competi-

tion and wide community use...
Handsworth track has a beautiful

_Setting and, once restored, can wel-
“come ; back -athletes, ‘joggers. and

walkers of all ages.. .
Kity Castle . .
Director, Handsworth Secondary

Shoot Association

Hooray, Doug |

Dear Editor: ° ;
‘Re: Doug Collins,
Hooray for Doug!

It is our belief that 90% of rend: F
ers agree with his views — please

don’t ever let him: stop,. or don’t

* ever let him be muzzled.

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render anyway. Hence no need for
our side to be nasty, But if they
were, why did it take them nine
days to quit after the first bomb

_ was dropped, und six days even

after the second?

It is obvious that the decision to
stop fighting did not come until
after Nagasaki was hit and that the
Japanese planned to defend their
islands with the undefeated bulk of
their ground forces, over two mil-
tion men, plus 10,000 kamikaze
planes. (See Paul Fussef's book;
Thank God For The Atam Bombs.)

Three days before the surrender.
_on Aug. U5, eight captured :
"American fliers were executed by *
having their heads chopped off and
the Japanese High Command had
ordered thatin the event of an inva-
sion all Allied prisoners were to be
shot. Many of them had already |

_ dug the pits into which their bodies ,

were tobe thrown,
Winston Churchill hit the nail
on the head
He suid that the people w ho pre:
fred invasion to the dropping af
bomb seemed to have no inten-
tion of proceeding to the Japanese
front themselves. ;
All wars are vicious, But the
one in the Far East was the most

vicious of ally

EXONSTHES INET
“Rapin sensrec a

Wednesday, August 2 -

British nurses were bayoneted
and raped in Hong Kong and
Singapore. Austratian nurses ship-
wrecked on a Malaysian beach met
the same fate:

, Only u few weeks before the

‘end came, 123,000 Americans and -

Japanese died on Okinawa. There
was no thought of surrender. ‘

What was it like? An American
marine culled E.B. Sledge has writ. ;
ten that even the troaps if close
support had no idea of. the horror.

He described himself and his
friends “sliding under fire down a

" shell-pocked ridge slimy with mud

and liquid dysentery sh into the’
Magryoty. Japanese and American

North Shore News -~ 7. ~

“corpses at the bottom, vomiting as
“the maggots burrowed into their

own foul clothing.”

Those who cliim that the war
would soon have been over anyway
don’t talk about how many Allied -
fighting mien would have been -
killed before the end came.“

George MacDonald Fraser,
author of Quartered Safe Out Here,
points out that fighting was sull
going on in Burma even after the
Japanese surrender. He's another
who says think God for the atom.
homb.

He skewers critics by asking.
“them whether they would have been |’
willing t give their lives if by
doing so it Nould have been possi-

ble to. save Japan from ‘the atom,

bombs,
He says they usually wriggle a
bit over that one.

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