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EG: You were before some committee, the Tolan Committee?

FS: What?

EG: You were before the Tolan Committee to testify?

FS: No.

EG: No?

FS: No. They visited me. My wife and I were sitting on the dock at Lahaina on the island of Maui one night when the boat from Hilo back to Honolulu couldn't dock because the water was too rough. And they were sitting off the harbor, off the dock -- there's no harbor there at Lahaina. And a man -- I'd met him... somewhere before -- sat down beside me, told me he was FBI, began asking questions. He knew all my friends, asked about Burt Farquharson, "How's he getting along," and this sort of thing. He knew just about all there was to know about me; very friendly, though. Finally, at the end of these seventy-two pages, there's a statement that, "This man, though misguided, is apparently sincere in his concern, and we do not recommend..." What's the word?

EG: Internment or indictment?

FS: "...recommend punishment," or whatever the, what's the word?

EG: Incarceration?

FS: Yes, we don't "recommend legal action against him." So I can make out enough of the blacked out areas, to know that they contain the names of people who had given evidence against me; and the evidence was, as my brother found out, I was a "yella bellied Jap lover." That sums it up.

EG: [Laughs] I didn't know there was a law against that.

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