"So when people, including the Government, want more or less to suggest the war was finished before 15 August, we will not have that. We will not have that." But then Field Marshal Viscount Slim's 14th Army, which turned the tide against the Japanese army in Burma, called themselves the Forgotten Army, so perhaps it's not surprising that most of us appear to have forgotten them and the war in the East they fought.Britons, Africans, Americans, and Caribbeans all fought in that war but the Indian army provided most of the soldiers Britain's hold over India was crumbling Mahatma Gandhi was calling on us to "quit India". We will not have that."
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When Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945, Philip Malins, an officer in the Indian army, was still fighting the Japanese. "We were still getting killed and prisoners of war were still dying," he told me in a voice choking with anger. But the scientists believe that this does not rule out the possibility that a similar effect may result from exposure to low doses.Both of the chemicals are known to be toxic in high doses and each is considered capable of interfering with the functioning of reproductive hormones - a feature of toxins known as endocrine disrupters.The scientists exposed pregnant rats to the chemicals at the crucial moment in gestation when the sex of the offspring is determined. The result was that male offspring suffered a 20 per cent decline in sperm counts, and sperm motility - its ability to swim - fell by up to 35 per cent.What was surprising was that these traits were also seen in 90 per cent of the male offspring born to three more subsequent generations yet the scientists found no obvious mutations in the DNA of the animals.One possibility is that the toxic substances altered the natural chemicals, called methyl groups, that normally surround the DNA molecule and these subtle changes were inherited by the male offspring."We are mostly describing a new phenomenon...When Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945, Philip Malins, an officer in the Indian army, was still fighting the Japanese. The hazards of environmental toxins are much more pronounced that we realised," Dr Skinner said.. We believe this phenomenon will be widespread and be a major factor in understanding how disease develops," Dr Skinner said.The rats were exposed to much higher levels of the toxic chemicals than would be experienced even by agricultural workers handling the products on a daily basis. He said that the findings, published today in the journal Science, suggest that toxins may play a role in heritable diseases that were previously thought to be caused solely by genetic mutations."It's a new way to think about disease. Scientists found that the male offspring of the exposed rats suffered a sharp decline in the quality and quantity of their sperm and that these traits continued to be passed on down the male line.Yet the researchers believe that the chemicals did not mutate the genes of the rats - a proven way of passing on damaging traits - but instead may have altered the way the genes work.Michael Skinner of Washington State University, who led the research team, said nearly all the male rats born in each generation were affected by sperm damage or low sperm counts.
Pesticides and other man-made chemicals may lower male fertility for at least four generations, according to new research. Pregnant rats exposed to fungicide sprayed on vineyards and pesticide sprayed on crops had male offspring with a sperm count reduced by 20 per cent.If confirmed by further experiments, the findings could help explain the decline in human male fertility over the past 50 years.The study was carried out on laboratory rats that received high levels of vinclozolin, a fungicide widely used in vineyards, and methoxychlor, a pesticide used to replace DDT when it was banned more than 30 years ago. "But he insisted in his contract that he was provided with a lock-up garage right opposite the stage door." Diva!pandora independent.co.uk. Following Val Kilmer's admission - first reported here - that he's been arriving at performances of The Postman Always Rings Twice on a push bike, I learn that Ewan McGregor has also taken to two wheels.Speaking after his debut in Guys and Dolls, McGregor said that he's been negotiating our capital city on a motorbike. Apparently it's been a wee bit dangerous, even compared to his recent 20,000-mile trek across some of the most inhospitable corners of Asia.Notwithstanding the daily peril it places him in, sources at the Piccadilly Theatre tell me McGregor's uncommonly proud of his bike, thought to be a red BMW."We've got a perfectly decent motorcycle parking bay outside the theatre," I'm told. Mike Clasper, chief executive of BAA, finds himself caught between a rock and a hard place. The only thing guaranteed to release him would be a Government u-turn in favour of a third runway at Heathrow, in which case from Richmond to Henley, the angry mob would march on Westminster.
