HIROSHIMA WEIGH ON HIS CONSCIENCE?
“As a gentleman farmer, retired after a spectacular career in the art of mass butchery of human beings, and now concerned about his memoirs, General Eisenhower gives evidence of a most unexpected ‘Symptom = something like a conscience stirs in hin.
In a book The White House Years, to be published next month, the General confesses for the first time that in 1945 he believed that dropping an atomic bomb on Japan was “completely unnecessary./
In a previous book Crusade in Europe, Eisenhower had, intimated that he had been of this-opinion, He now states flatly that his view was that Japan was "already defeated" and that the United States should "avoid shocking world opinion,'
‘Eisenhower claims that he expressed his opinion to the late Henry L. “Stimson, then Secretary of War, apparently ten days before the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
Eisenhower's efforts to now disclaim any°moral responsibility for the decision that spelled the destruction of two immense cities should be weighed against the following facts: Co
(1) He never made his views public at the time and did not even put up a fight for them in top army circles.