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...their Congressmen they write: "You won't kill a Jap with your yap." The people want to be smartly and strongly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: THE FIRST SIX MONTHS | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...kill a Jap with your yap." That was the kind of rude remark the U.S. citizen was writing to his Congressmen last week. Rarely, if ever, had contemporary Congresses seen such mail. The letters were blistering. The average citizen blamed his Congressman for every defeat from Pearl Harbor to Java, and told him so in writing that scorched the paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Mail | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...Sooner or later America will be at war with Japan. And the moment she is the same people will start the same yap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Wish Come True | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...Sorry. Which people? Which yap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Wish Come True | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...water bridge east through Mid way. Beyond Wake, the bridge passes through the Japanese mandated islands. Since the early '30s Japan has worked hard building up air bases in this cluster of hundreds of islands and her other pin points of land in the Pacific. On Yap, on Palau, on more other islands than Navymen like to think about, she has stored fuel, erected air and submarine bases, may even have established bases for light surface craft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Bridge to the Orient | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

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