Letters, Mar. 24, 1947

They Must Be Taught

Sirs:

. . . You published [TIME, Feb. 3] the reactions of some of your readers to the John-stones' creating a $10,000 scholarship for Orientals, and a former Kamikaze pilot being the first to benefit.

As a Japanese girl who knows both East & West, who in fact is so "Westernized" as to reject the creed that her countrymen are supermen, may I ask to express my candid opinion in your columns?

A number of the more liberally minded Japanese will doubtless be deeply moved by the Johnstones' noble gesture. But such...