[Marxism] How the Bombing of Hiroshima was reported in 1945

["M. Junaid Alam" <junaidalam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I just clicked the British Guardian and I was (only mildly really)
shocked at the complete level of callousness and disdain for human life
in their reporting  of the dropping of the first atom bomb. The Brits
weren't even hit by the Japanese, nor did they have any great love for
Southeast Asia, so I wonder what that was all about. Notice the
quotation marks. Here's the ending of it:

*Appeals for sympathy*

Japan's detailed horror broadcasts of the atom bombing are regarded by
authoritative quarters here as an attempt to cause world-wide revulsion
against such "inhuman" assaults and not as a move to peace overtures.
Japan is seen clutching the same straw as Germany futilely attempted to
grasp in the hope that world opinion would become so aroused that the
United States would be forced to discontinue atomic and other types of
bombing against "innocent peoples." Another indication that the Japanese
are trying to marshal world opinion on their side is that the Vatican
statement deploring the bombing was repeatedly broadcast by the Japanese
radio to Europe.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1277648,00.html

I think Truman described it (the center of the city) as a military
target in a public broadcast...that was the official justification.

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