THE TOKYO TRIAL
Sir,—Surely it is clear that posterity will regard these “trials,” in which the judges are also the prosecutors who have drawn the indictments to suit their own ends, as an exhibition of hypocrisy. Such trials could fulfil the requirements of justice only if there were commonly accepted world law applicable to all, and if all national armaments had been abolished. Does anyone now doubt that the dropping •f atomic bombs, particularly without of their effectiveness, on M already defeated nation was the greatest atrocity of the war? What Bakes hypocrisy double-dyed is that the Japanese are to be tried for events ft many years ago. Is it not common knowledge that Britain and America ftctlveiy assisted earlier Japanese ag®resslon in China and Korea? After the
Manchurian “incident,” was not the British Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, known at Geneva as “the advocate for Japan”?—Yours, etc., L. A. EFFORD. June 18, 1946.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24905, 19 June 1946, Page 10
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