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Show Prot.es! Use of Atomic Bosib A committee, founded in Great Britain in 1941, and called the Bombing Restriction Committee, has protested the use of the a-tomic a-tomic bomb against Japanese cities and has sent a message to President Truman and Prime Minister Atlee in oposition to "the indiscriminate bombing of cities." Every sensible individual is conscious of the enormous destruction de-struction caused by the bombing of cities during war and the inevitable in-evitable loss of life among civilians civil-ians who happen to reside a-round a-round the targets. Nevertheless, in modern warfare, the industrial production of nation is its war strength and the destruction of its ability to produce weapons and munitions represents one of the greatest steps toward victory. In regard to the protest against the use of the atomic bomb, it may be said that the same objections ob-jections apply to the use of any bombs whatever. Use by the United States was predicated upon up-on the necessity of destroying Japan's power to make war and thus shorten the struggle and save the "lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans." While we regret the necessity of war that compelled us to bomb Japanese, or other cities, with the loss of life that must occur among civilians, we should not lose sight of the fact that this nation made very effort to avoid war. We should not forget that we fought to strike down evil aggressors ag-gressors with malignant designs upon mankind, its peoples and their property. |