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Read with interest your article on a U.S. press reporter stating that the Japs "had made us look like monkeys" [TIME, Aug. 27]. As members of the occupation forces on Kyushu we have seen the monkeys being made and the coddling and too easy handling of the little yellow apes...
...first contact on the enemy's ground provided a preview of the conquered's behavior under occupation. Two Lightning pilots from Okinawa set down unexpectedly on a Kyushu airfield to wait for a rescue plane carrying gas. Jap personnel at the field were courteous and co operative - and they treated the Americans as equals...
...dropped on Hiroshima; in ways that could not be revealed, it was also, said Army & Navy officers, so much of an improvement that the first bomb was obsolete. It exploded on or near the ground, blasted a ghastly crater. It destroyed only one square mile of the Kyushu seaport, but spokesmen said that it had been more devastating than the first...
There was no such letup at Okinawa, dearly bought eyrie of the Far East Air Forces. General George C. Kenney sent B-24s to burn Kurume, on Kyushu Island; later waves turned aside to secondary targets near...
Somehow, after an indeterminate confinement, perhaps at forced labor to repair some of the damage they had wrought, these millions who had swarmed out like locusts must be shipped home-and somehow squeezed into teeming Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu and Hokkaido. Not one of the countries which they had plagued would keep them a day longer than necessary...