The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-02

OF washington.
which Alaska is not so distant
from. and having been a recent Wis
itor there, Representative Warren
C. Magnuson. who does have a con-
gressional vote, also is pretty vocal.
Commissioner Joaquin M. Elizalde.
from the Philippines. likewise has
aplenty to say on the Jap subject.
Another Filipino spokesman. en-
tirely unofficial but the emissary Of
Filipino interests that don't want
their archipelago to cut loose from
the United States in 1914. as sched-
uled, is DR.. Vincente Villamin. a
top-notch authority on all Islands
in Oriental waters.
Delegate Dimond evolved the
idea Of asking Russia to grant US
naval and aviation bases on GER
tain Boring sea islands. known as
the Komandorski. owned by the
Soviets and strung out from our
own Alaskan Aleutians in the di-
rection Of Russian mainland Kam-
chatka
Considering that we need these
stepping stones to facilitate the
movement Of American supplies to
help the Muscovites against Ger
many and maybe against the Japs
a bit later, Dimond thinks Moscow
will be glad to let us have EN-.
They won't take us clear to Vladi-
-vostok without trip through or
over japanese waters. but they'll
make il easier for us to get there,
by plane. anyway.
Vladivostok Strategic
Representative Magnuson heart
lily endorses this scheme. pointing
out that Vladivostok is nearer to
Alaska than his state of Washing
ton is. and insisting that. grabbed
by Japan or Germany occupied.
through a conquest Of European
and then Asiatic Russia. 1t would
be an everlasting worry to US. as
jumping-off place Alaskaward. In
cidentally. Magnuson wants an
A No. / highway, for military
transportation purposes, from
WASHINGTON 70 Alaska thrnueh a
Yankee corridor across Canada,
development the Canadians seem
perfectly acquiescent in.
Delegate Kings no more pro-
Jap than anybody. but he doesn't
regard the thoroughly American
assimilated Japs in Hawaii as APP
prehensively as we American main
landers do.
I noticed this difference during a
VISIT I paid to Honolulu years ago.
Getting as far as the Pacific coast,
I found the Californians as skit-
fish Of their resident Japanese as
blazes. I expected to find the Ha-'
waiian white folk still more SO. 1t
wasn't the case at all.
Walter Frear. then governor Of
the territory. told me. The ances-
tors of our Japs here came to these
islands two or three generations
ago because they didn't like eondi-
tions at home. The ones we've got
today wouldn't be re-Japped for
anything They're as Americanized
as the rest OF US. They'd fight for
Uncle Sam against the Mikado II
1t were put up to EN-"
That seems to be somewhat Dele
gate Kings opinion.
The Fiiipinos are more Japanese
ly suspicious than the Hawaiians
are.
can remember when their
Washington commissioners were
rampant for their islands inde-
pendence. Back in about 1924 /
talked with one Of EN-. Pedro Cue
varra. "As a matter Of fact"
asked. ARE your people ripe for
self.government? 1t was in prohi-
bition days. On Commissioner Cue
varras lap lay a spread-out news
paper. He held the front page up
before me. II simply was plastered
with accounts Of bootlegging shoot
ings and miscellaneous disorders.