Word: ken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This letter is prompted by a paragraph in TIME [Aug. 6]: "Ken Murayama, a Japanese newsman, recently captured in the Philippines, wrote that Japan was ripe for surrender...
...usual, TIME has filled in a little chink for me. I thought that TIME might be interested in a little background on Ken...
...long before the incident at the Marco Polo bridge. He was one of the brightest kids I ever knew, and so completely American that his almond-shaped eyes were almost forgotten. I say "almost" because I remember very well one particular incident that might have had some effect on Ken's future...
...before some high-school prom or other, he made the mistake of asking cme of our girls whether he might escort her. The girl said yes, she would love to go with him but she must ask her mother. And I know that the girl wanted to go with Ken. . . . Well, the girl asked her mother's permission and her mother was horrified. The girl was forced to try to tell Ken why she couldn't go with him. Suddenly, I think, some sort of portcullis dropped between him and the boys and girls whom he knew...
...Ken Murayama, a Japanese newsman recently captured in the Philippines, thought that Japan was ripe for surrender. He said that the man picked to arrange it was an almost forgotten political zombie, Admiral and former Premier Keisuke Okada...