264 DASA 2019-2 They are developing thie as one of their commodities, so to speak. It's why Palomares was a rather important factor; the Vice- President of the country, once he heard that there was no rea) health problem, next asked, ‘Are you going to find that lost bornb? * SCHULL- There's at least one other important dilference between the lapanese and the Spanioh situations which has not ee yet been mentioned, and that ls the racial cvertones which can be read inte the former, in Spain, both of the nations which were involved were Caucasian, but inthe case of the bukuryu Maru it wae white sgeinat yellow tn the minds of some, Uf may have been ealely fortuitous, ut it wae at about thie time “Sat i recall encountering the firet of what hae since become «a much larger vumber of places in Tokyo catering only to Japanese, ROOT. Lthink that's corroborated by the leck of furor when the Chinese dropped their bomb. ft wae being taken aruund and intro. duced by top Japanese ecience writers wha had been our gueste at the Overneas Preae Club the previous year anduho were handsomely returring the courtesy, Thre established a eather epecial relations ship, I began increaaingly to get anti-American semimente, fet Menta from the press and fram eome of the professors, olficials and doctors. lust at that tune the Chinese bomb was ecaploded ard ft felt & distinct, though concested, elation behind the cupressed feare of fallow. That definitely was a racial thing, ED think, PREMONT-SMUTH a bomb’ The notion that ancther yellow race hed gotten . , ‘ : ; ; ROOF Right. A really great identification existe with China, 4 Actually a baeic bond exsate and is recognised, de.pite all the unhappy years of the past, MILLET: It seeme fo me there ie a renascence of pride in Japan. think there hae been tremendous pride in the culture of Japan is the past. Think ot their walking out of the League af Nations meeting, for example, inthe militariatic daye, Mt wuuld acemto me rather that the etate of Germany is one in which there 10 a camplete lack of identiLication at the present time, What was once « single nation is now split inte two nations, They don't know how they caa get back into one, That 8 « gemuine fear of loans of identity, Dthink, there, I don't think there's any fear of Joes of identity among the Japanese ae far a6 1 know, ‘