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Reparations letter ‘distorts reality’

Dear Editor:

The News recently published a
letter- by one F.W. Banks of West
Vancouver. Supposedly a rebuttal
of my condemnation of the treat-
ment of Canadians of Japanese
descent, Banks’ letter is nothing if
not a pathetic distortion of reality.

Attempting to justify actions
taken against these unfortunate
Canadian; during the Second
World War by dredging up the
atrocities inflicted on POWs by the
Japanese military defies all logic.

Is Mr. Banks’ argument:
members of the military and police
of another nation harmed our mil-
itary personnel therefore we are
justified in harming Canadian ci-
villians of the same race as the
former? Even if this absurd

_ premise were acceptable, would it
not then follow that we should
then exact vengeance on Canadian
civilians of German, Austrian or
Italian blood?

Of course we did not and the
reason stands out clearly: Cana-
dians of Japanese ancestry were
victims of a racism which perme-
ated British Columbian society.
Mr. Banks dozs not address this
nor does he grasp the fact that at

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no point did I deny that grave in-
justices were meted out to Allied
military personnel in the Second
World War — these are well-
documented but totally irrelevant
to the issue of persecution of Ca-
nadian civilians for the reasons
given in the preceding portions of
this paragraph.

And, in closing, let me add (by
way of establishing my objectivity)
that not only have I read military
histories extensively, but 1 am also
a proud former member of the
Canadian Armed Forces. What I
am decidedly not proud of is our

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treament of members of a visible
minority during the Second World
War and the continued belief of
the misguided few that this treat-
ment was somchow excusable.
Richard M. Steele —

North Vancouver

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