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...Hawaii of 1952 is a string of volcanic islands in mid-Pacific where half a million U.S. citizens are living the most spectacular story of all the incredible stories of Americanization. In the decade since the Jap attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaiians have faced a half-century's accumulated problems of transition: the breakdown of economic monopoly, the rise of aggressive labor unionism, the threat of Communist control, the restlessness of homecoming veterans, and the rights, problems and adjustments of linguistic and racial minorities. For each problem they have found, if not the answer, at least a piece...
Career: After teaching English in Japanese schools and doing commercial work in Japan and China, Allison started with the Foreign Service in 1930. He has held a dozen diplomatic posts in the Far East. In 1938 in Nanking, he figured in a red-hot diplomatic incident when a Jap sentry slapped his face; the Japs quickly apologized. Last year he acted as John Foster Dulles' assistant in the preparation of the Japanese Peace Treaty and the Pacific security pact...
Author Thomas tells a good story, especially when he is describing with veteran skill the wild night in March 1944 when the glider-borne attackers landed behind the Jap lines. The pity is that, after giving the Americans their due, he had relatively little room left to tell the story of the British and Empire troops - whose bitter work began when the gliders rolled to a stop...
...disheartening to find the CRIMSON again using the word "Jap" (first page headline of the October 27 edition). As I recall, it was brought to your attention in a letter to the editor about two years ago that the word carries a slurring connotation. Use of the term does no credit to your paper. Monroe H. Freedman...
...Hero. As an intelligence officer, Joe often went along on missions in the rear gunner's seat. He had his picture taken there, and saw that it made Wisconsin papers. Joe used to shoot up everything in sight, on the theory that any coconut tree might hide a Jap. He hated to see a crew come home with any ammunition left. On his tent, marines hung a sign: "Protect the coconut trees-Send McCarthy back to Wisconsin...