Hawaiian Paper Raps Loyalty Slur by Japan

HONOLULU, Thursday, Aug. 3. -- (AP) -- The Star-Bulletin said in an editorial yesterday it was "unwarranted" presumption for The Osaka Mainichi (Japanese newspaper) to attempt to disavow the loyalty to the United States of American citizens of Japanese ancestry in Hawaii, the impertinence of which should not go unchallenged."

The Japanese newspaper asserted the United States forfeited the loyalty of more than 100,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry residing in Hawaii by terminating the 1911 trade treaty with Japan.

Exception to the newspaper's assertion also was made by a group of Hawaiian citizens of Japanese ancestry, among them Wilfred Tsukiyama, city and county attorney, who said "the people of Japan have no right to speak for us."

"Those most directly affected," The Star-Bulletin said, "should show in every reasonable way that ties to the parent country, so far as loyalty is concerned, simply do not exist."