AB - Sunday, January 27, 185 - North Shore News

The wartime Sun did NAT

shine on Japanese in B.

T’S HARD TO BELIEVE, but a politician has
| an honest word to say about Canada’s

Great War Crime, meaning the forced exodus
of the Japanese from this coast.

He’s not a federal politi-
cian, needless to say (the feds
are getting ready to grovel
and. kowtow on the issue),
nor even a provincial one.
But he's a_ politician, ali
right, because he’s Peter
Pollen, the mayor of Vic-
toria. And you could have
knocked me over with a glass
of saki when I opened my
mail the other day and found
he had written me a letter in
which he takes arms agaitust a
sea of trendy lies and
propaganda.

The mayor of Victoria was
a teen-ager in these parts
when the evacuation of the
Japanese took place. He
worked with many of thera
during the war, and later, as
an adult, continued to take a
keen and friendly interest in
them. Even our half-witted
anthropologists and
sociolog‘sts would not be
able to accuse him of being a
racist. But he lays’.a few
things on the line.

Enclosed with his letter
was correspondence he has
been conducting—or in the
case of The Sun attempting
to conduct—with the press.
And one of his main points is
the same as mine: it is useless
to apply today’s conditions
and attitudes to those of
1942, He mentions the attack
on Pearl Harbor, and
continues:

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“Japanese forces advanced
along the coast of Asia, tak-
ing Hong Kong on Dec. 25,
1941, Singapore on February
15, and Burma.... At the
same time they attacked the
Phillipines and occupied the
island of Guam, while laun-
ching air attacks on Northern
Australia... The Japanese
expansion reached its peak
with the landing on the Aleu-
tian Islands of Alaska, giving
Japan control of more than
450,000,000 people. And
Vancouver Island was shelled
by a Japanese submarine."’

That was the context in
which the evacuation took
place. I have commented on

Doug Collins

it myself, and as columnist ak eee
Eric Nicol has pointed out to. to English Bay.

our hair-shirt enthusiasts, In such circumstances,
people on the Coast were there was every reason to
“scared shipless’’. Daily, move the Japanese. As Mr.
they expected to see the Pollen states, they were

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40 per cent were Japanese
citizens or had dual nationali-
ty, and they had 950 fishing
boats. He might also have ad-
ded that Tokyo regarded
them a//as Japanese citizens.
What would they do in the
event of a landing? No one
knew. And no one was going
to take any risks.

OK, so you've read all that
before. But Mr. Pollen
reveals that the very news-
papers now beating their
smug editorial breasts about
the rottenness of it afl, were
the very ones that were urg-
ing the government to clamp
down on those Japs.

As early as Feb. 10, 1938,
The Sun editorfalized:

“More than a few of them
have been known to talk
grandiosely about what

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