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...Francisco.] Sure, exhilarated at the prospect of getting a splash of lewisite-even a feeling of elation at the prospect of seeing arms, legs and torsos flung into the treetops. You guys make me sick . . . almost as sick as I'd be after a whiff of noxious Jap...
Sirs: I wonder if John L. Ulmer (TIME, April 27) knows what he is talking about [in a letter saying, "If these people (the Japs) were allowed to go about their business as honorable, law-abiding Americans, no doubt the majority would behave as such."] In Alaska a couple of well-respected and honorable Jap-Americans proved that they were capable of "knifing in the back" the land of their adoption...
...other: a resident of Alaska for over 30 years, well-known and liked . . . was operating a restaurant in Valdez. . . . For reasons of his own he imported an oversupply of Jap dishwashers, cooks, second cooks, bakers. This superintelligent help would stay a few weeks, then disappear to be replaced by a fresh batch. Each employe was armed with a Leica or similar high-powered camera and spent most of his time away from his work taking pictures of the surrounding country...
Reader Ulmer underestimates the foresight and capabilities of respected Jap-Americans...
Meantime the battleship may possibly have an Indian summer. Since apparently at least half of the Jap carrier strength was destroyed in the Coral Sea and near Midway, the big U.S. battlewagons may get a chance to go in and slug the Jap surface fleet. But battleships will have a chance to fight only until the navies of the world get adequate carrier forces-or after an adequate naval defense against aircraft has been devised...