mdiehl -> RE: Yamamoto Isoroku new movie (12/14/2011 2:30:29 AM)
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You all may appreciate a story that comes from a "friend of a friend" -- both of whom were in the Foreign Service in Japan in the 1950s and 1960s. Apparently, one of Adm. Yamamoto's daughters worked at the US Embassy as the staff librarian. As the story was told to me, in the early 1960s, she approached one of the embassy staff and said, basically, that some years before a Senator McCarthy had listed an assortment of books that ought to be banned. She was instructed by the Embassy to cull the books from the library and destroy them. But instead of destroying them, she took them home for safe keeping, on the assumption that "America won't stay THAT way very long." But as Sen. McCarthy had died, wouldn't the Embassy like those books back in the library? She returned them the following day.
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