THE Queen awarding the Emperor of Japan the Order of the Garter is an insensitive, grotesque and obscene act.

In World War Two the gross atrocities committed by the barbaric and inhuman Japanese on innocent, unarmed men, women and children makes them ineligible to be members of the human race.

Once again, the royals have shown themselves to be totally oblivious of happenings and public opinion in the real world.

Order of the Garter should be replaced by 'the order of the boot' to this undesirable alien, or send him to the tower!

EVAN WILLIAMS, Carr Meadow, Clayton-le-Woods, Preston.

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