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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,
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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,
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Right. A really great identification existe with China,
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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,
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