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...General Lemnitzer himself flew down with them. Tokyo, genially wined and dined them at the plush Ryukyus Command Officers' Club. Scooting about the island in a fleet of khaki-colored Chevrolets escorted by white-helmeted MPs. the Japanese talked with everyone from the Communist mayor of Naha to farmers whose land had been requisitioned by the U.S. military. What they saw-new towns, new roads, new factories-was in great contrast to the derogatory stories that the jingoistic Japanese press had been reporting, or the banners that greeted them in Okinawa about "inhuman hellish activities of the Americans...
...mobs of cheering supporters. He pounded away at such slogans as, "End U.S. rule of the saber," "Restoration of Okinawa to Japan the motherland," "Yankee go home." Last week, despite the best efforts of U.S. authorities, Senaga got himself elected to Okinawa's top elective office-mayor of Naha, the island's biggest city (pop. 170,000). With the two other candidates splitting the pro-U.S. vote, he won with only 40% of the votes...
Okinawa's majority Democratic Party took alarm. Its conservative businessmen leaders well knew that U.S. dollars were responsible for Okinawa's new schools and hospitals, even for the bright new concrete buildings and paved streets of Naha itself. Two days after election, 27 of Naha's 30 city councilors announced that they would "refuse to cooperate with a Communist mayor pledged to destroy all the progress Naha has made with the aid and good will of the U.S." Simultaneously, all 22 of the city department heads resigned "in protest against serving under ex-Convict Senaga." Moriyasu Tomihara...
Kadena Air Base, with its 9,000-ft. runway, has become the Air Force's most important Far Eastern home. Naha Air Base is nearly as big. The Army, Defense Secretary Wilson declared recently, expects to make Okinawa its major troop base, capable of staging more troops than it handled (182,000) in World War II. And when the rest of the 3rd Marine Division, now scattered from Japan to Hawaii, makes its scheduled move to Okinawa when housing is ready, Okinawa will be headquarters for the largest Marine striking force in the Orient...
...note with interest one of the "horrible" examples of waste cited by the Hoover Commission in their surveys of transportation expenditures of the Federal Government [April 11]. The air shipments of dog food to Okinawa were to myself. As air police officer of the 546th Ammunition Supply Squadron at Naha air base, I made use of 15 German police dogs that performed guard or sentry duty. These dogs were a major factor in reducing pilferage on the depot. The shipments of dog food arrived at intervals of two to three months and were intended to cover our needs...