SIR: In answer to K A Haslam, the CND placed the flowers on Bolton's War Memorial not to honour Japanese murderers nor indeed Western murderers. It was to point out what the War Memorial was put there for in the first place: to respect the reason what those who "failed to return" fought for - to protect our people and homelands and halt the outrages of our enemies. Those flowers were to remind us of the dangers we face in ignoring the ideals and principles of our war memorials.

Read the message on Bolton's War Memorial: "We must strive for peace lest we forget what they died for". It is difficult enough to keep our rulers from making wars: not impossible if we keep our eyes on the ball. We can at least take the power of mass destruction away from those who are able to plunge us into disaster.

The United Nations have called for the elimination of all mass killing weapons. The World Court at the Hague have outlawed the using and storing of all nuclear weapons, whatever the excuses for their retention. We must force the nuclear powers to obey the law! Only then can we say of our sacred dead they have not died in vain.

B Lewis, Taunton Drive, Farnworth,

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