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Whoever wrote this Japanese caption for the cartoon did not do a good job of it, for the text actually says: "For Our Birthday present, find out the name of the country that bombed Japan." Which makes it anything but a piece of effective propaganda, and sounds ridiculous, if I may say so, because every Japanese must know which country bombed Japan.
. . . The Japanese people, at home or abroad, will be very indifferent to, if not amused by, this type of propaganda, but will be profoundly stirred and disturbed when their sense of propriety, pride, and national honor are challenged in a manner and a language that they can not fail to understand. . . .
For years I have considered myself a refugee from my native country, Japan, and have endeavored to win the Japanese people to the cause of humanity and freedom. For the sake of my relatives still in Japan, I must ask you to withhold my identity.
Madison, Wis.
The Nine Others
Sirs:
On page 59 of TIME, Oct. 26: "La Prensa ... is one of the world's ten greatest papers." What, in your opinion, are the other nine? . . .
R. M. MARKHAM St. Petersburg, Fla.
>As a proposal: the London Times, Manchester Guardian, New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, Baltimore Sun, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Washington Post, Kansas City Star, and one more to be named by the reader.—ED.
TIME, November 16, 1942