Working for the Japs
Sir: In `Spock of the valleys' (15 April) Boris Johnson tells us that a Japanese doll is to be seen at the Welsh Office in acknowledgement of the Japanese compa- nies established in the Principality.
This prompts me to send you the follow- ing lines, with this year's commemoration of VJ Day particularly in mind. Kohima, the turning point of the Burma campaign, is one of the battle honours of the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
Kohima turned Dai Nippon's tide, Dai Siencyn fought there: fought and died.
In Wales Dai's children now, perhaps, Are busy working for the Japs.
`Woe to the victors' is the cry Of these industrial samurai.
The banker's still the overlord.
The yen is mightier than the sword.
Irfon Roberts
Priory Wall House, 3 Cockshut Road, Lewes, East Sussex
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