TAKING THEIR REGULAR TURN

The only good Jap, says a dull-thinking congressman, is a dead one.

If the congressman had happened to have been talking about Tokyo Japs, The Review would add a hasty, "Amen!" It so happens that he was speaking of Japanese-American citizens and was making the common, but terrible, mistake of calling them "Japs."

We are pleased to be able this week to refer the congressman and all others like him, who refuse to believe that there are loyal American citizens who have Japanese blood in them, to a report of the Fifth Army of the United States, now fighting a war to the death with the Germans in Italy. This report deals with the front-line fighting of the 100th Battalion, all of whose enlisted men and most of whose officers were born and raised of Japanese parents in Hawaii. The report, in part, says:

"These soldiers are as far away from the stereotyped picture of the evil-doing sons of Japan as the all-American boy is from a head-hunter . . . They don't ask for anything . . . they're fighting with the rest of us, taking their regular turn."

That's all The Review, ever since Pearl Harbor, has asked for our evacuated American citizens of Japanese descent--a regular turn on the battle front or the home front to prove their loyalty. Apparently, judging from what the Army says, they'll prove it if given the chance.