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...disrupt the life of the Islands, the military gave permission for two Jap papers to reappear, considered resumption of Jap broadcasts from Hawaii's radio stations. Only thus could the Army convey its orders to non-English-speaking Japs...
...minds of many of Hawaii's 105,000 haoles (whites), invasion loomed as a very real threat. What would the Islands' Japanese do then? Islanders who remembered that Jap high-school boys from Hawaii had helped pilot the planes that attacked Pearl Harbor looked uneasily at Hawaii's Japanese thousands going freely, imperturbably about their business. What about the houseboy, the cop on the corner, the farmer down the road? What about the Japs set to guard the Islands...
...people. Already in provinces of Luzon (but not in primitive Bataan, which the U.S. still held) the Japanese had set up their own governments. Japanese residents, once outwardly peaceful shopkeepers and fishermen, blossomed out into uniforms and became provincial governors. Filipino quislings and renegade whites joined with them. The Jap's Special Service Station had also begun the looting of the islands by the familiar Nazi methods, including the use of cleverly counterfeited money...
...course he had rushed to the West Coast when the Coast was scared at the thought of an air raid. "Where would the people of this city want me to be when a neighboring city needed my help? Oh," clucked Mr. LaGuardia, "I suppose some Jap will say, or friend of a Jap will say, we want you to be here...
Many a non-Jap in New York had just that thought. Said the New York Times, severely: "Of course we want him to be here. . . . The place for the Mayor of New York to be in time of war is in New York...