Sir: The Largest Voluntary Recruitment For Military...
occurred in India during the second world war. Two million men enlisted to fight for the Raj. The spearhead of Wave11's desert army was the 4th Indian Division, which smashed......
Flora And Fauna
Sir: I had hoped that Ross Clark's visit to the River Test would have resulted in something more enlightened than a rather sour and confused polemic about public access ('Flora,......
Bombay Fix Sir: Sarmila Bose ('enough Guilt For Every- One',
19 August) states that unarmed crowds in India were machine-gunned from the air in 1942, when Gandhi launched the 'Quit India' movement. At that time, I was in command of RAF......
Soviet Perfidy
Sir: Apropos the commonly held view that the dropping of A-bombs saved millions of American and Japanese lives ('Let's call it slap-a-Jap week', 5 August), allow me to say the......
Euromoney
Sir: With regard to the naming of the future Euro-currency, could I suggest 'Pieces of Eight'? This has sufficient nauti- cal undertones to satisfy the British. D. Nicholls 2A,......
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