WHAT ABOUT OURS?

A friend of ours--one of the many friends who have commented favorably on our stand on the evacuation situation--raises a point we had overlooked.

He points out that at the present time there are many, many American citizens now in the hands of the Japanese government. Contrary to published "atrocity" stories, most of these citizens are being fairly treated, he reports. He professes to know because he said he received letters from friends now under Japanese control.

He says this: "Are we not endangering the treatment and perhaps the lives of our American citizens by wholesale evacuation from homes of Japanese aliens here"

Of course, this government will not mistreat any alien or Japanese American citizen. Uncle Sam doesn't operate that way. But it is not likely that Japanese propagandists will invent "atrocity" stories about our treatment of their nationals. And won't those stories have a serious effect on our captive American friends?