I TAKE exception to Mr Kaiserman's recent scathing criticism of the atomic bombing of the Japanese cities in 1945.

What, I wonder, would his reaction have been had he or a son of his been at Pearl Harbour, subjected to a murderous and devastating attack by the Japanese prior to war being declared? What if he had been a Japanese prisoner of war, or had a loved one bayonetted to death as a hospital patient in Singapore, or a relative used as bayonet practice in Malaya?

I do not know his military record but I can assure him that I, and many others who served in the army in Burma and were then in India preparing to continue the campaign against the Japs, were very pleased to hear that the bombs had accelerated the ending of the war. It obviously ensured the survival of many thousands of allies who could have died had the war continued.

N. BURCH,

Elder Way,

Radcliffe.