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Tokio dispatches, published on the front pages of many American newspapers, to the effect that the recent eruption of Asama-Yama, Japan's largest active volcano, was a catastrophe, were denounced as Axis propaganda designed to foster false optimism among the United Nations by L. Don Leet, assistant professor of Seismology...
...Japs are probably laughing up their large kimono sleeves at the gullibility of the American press, which fell in line with this propaganda scheme by printing the catastrophe story as an item of fact," Leet asserted...
...Nipponese must also enjoy the tendency among wishful-thinking, but not too well informed Americans, to believe that the Japanese Islands are one gigantic hotbed of potentially destructive volcanoes," said Leet. "In reality, this latest eruption is only one phase of a long chain of volcanic activity in Japan which dates from 1908," the seismologist explained...
...other sections of the department. Meneralogy 2 is better than average as is also Professor Leet's Seismology...
Besides being a huge theatre of war, the Western Pacific area is one of the most seismic in the world, according to Professor Leet, and "it would be a miracle if there was no sizeable quake somewhere within the vast area during the six months." The damage would not be great, however, for there are no really large centers that might be affected. In any case the damage could be repaired before it seriously disturbed the war effort...