Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-30
LITTLE COMFORT FOR PRO
JAPANESE SENTTIMENTALlS1S
Riverside Daily Press)

(Riverside Daily Press)
When news came that the Japs had
brutally executed the intrepid American
airmen who in the bombing of Tokyo
were forced to land in enemy territory
this paper expressed itself rather vigor-
ouslv on the character of the fanatical
Jap, his innate deceitfulness and treach-
cry, and in opposition to the proposal to
remove some of the japanese from relo-
cation centers back to the coast.
Since that time the Supreme Court
has spoken, and another clergyman, TAM
Gus from coast to coast, one whose back
ground has been such as to inspire con-
fidence and respectful hearing for
whatever he has to say, has expressed
himself in a manner that should give
some critics in this country pause.
In referring to the court decision, DR..
J. Whitcon1b Brougher, for many years
pastor of Temple Baptist church in Los
Angeles, later of fremont Temple in
Boston and now again occupying the
pulpit of the Los Angeles church, has
this to say in Sundays issue of the Los
Angeles Times:
1.-The Supreme Court upheld the right
of our military authorities to remove the
Japs or any other citizens from areas
where invasion is feared.
During the war none of us can go and
do as we please. Since Japan is the cause
of our war, our japanese citizens should
be content to abide by the restraint i'm
posed on them. 1t is better and safer for
them not to return to the coast now. They
might be the occasion of riotOuS attack
on themselves.
Let the pacifists and the pinks mind
their own business-if they have any
mind or any business-and let the mill
tary authorities handle the situation. A
woman asked her new maid if she was
good cook. She replied, Yes, if you don't
try to help me- General Dewitt and his
military forces will do good job if senti-
mental civilians don't try to help Them
At the annual governors conference
held the past week in Columbus, Ohio
devoted to finding useful ways they
might fit their states into the national
war effort, Governor Earl Warren OF
California drove home the point that most
of the country underestimates the needs
of the west coast for home defense. He
pointed out that the coast war plants
are facing deadly enemy in the Pacific
and that the danger of fire caused by
incandiaries in the forests of the region
is acute.
In his latest public utterance former
Ambassador Joseph c. Grew warned his
tory shows that merely defeating Japan
will not end the japanese menace. They
know" he said, that we can take their
army, control their industry, limit their
trade, strip their Notifications and even
occupy part of their country without dis
turbing their war-making capacity II we
fail to stamp out the tradition of mill
tarism.
The ingredients to (farm) production
gression is the japanese mlitarist cult,
and japanese claims to racial superior
ity. Unless that cult is destroyed, an
other war will be inevitable and the Jap
anese will begin preparing their next
military empire at the very moment that
they raise the white flag over the smok-
ing ruins of this one.
How quickly some folk can forget
Pearl Harbor is a mystery to the average
American bent on saving his country
from the brutal totalitarian dictators now
seeking to ensave the free peoples OF the
earth