RETURN OF JAPS URGED BY MYER

SALT LAKE CITY, March 23.--(AP)--Dillon S. Myer, director of the War Relocation Authority, asserted today that when the military situation permits "there can be no question" that Japanese-Americans moved from the Pacific Coast states "should have the right to go back to their former homes if they choose to do so."

"There are groups on the West Coast," Myer said in an address prepared for delivery at a luncheon meeting of Salt Lake City Civic Clubs, "who have been campaigning for months to stir up sentiment to keep the evacuees permanently excluded from their former homes.

"The plague of intolerance which they have fostered has spread into other areas; well-organized efforts undoubtedly will be made to spread it still further. The efforts will be carefully disguised in the cloak of patriotism...

"I find it hard to believe that the American people will tolerate for very long the fostering of hatred for fellow Americans and the destruction of American ideals when their sons are giving their lives to protect those ideals."