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Summary
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English:
Editorial cartoon in 1942 in the New York newspaper
PM
by children's author
Dr. Seuss
(
Theodor Seuss Geisel
) with the caption 'Waiting for the Signal From Home', portraying Japanese Americans in California, Oregon, and Washington as a
fifth column
loyal to Imperial Japan, receiving explosives, prepared to conduct sabotage against the United States when directed by their mother country. Public fears like this, excited by the 1941
attack on Pearl Harbor
by Japan on the then-
neutral
U.S., led to the
internment of 120,000 ethnic Japanese U.S. citizens
during
World War 2
. Geisel, who published many patriotic cartoons during the War, supported internment, saying: "
But right now, when the Japs are planting their hatchets in our skulls, it seems like a hell of a time for us to smile and warble: "Brothers!" It is a rather flabby battle cry. If we want to win, we've got to kill Japs, whether it depresses John Haynes Holmes or not. We can get palsy-walsy afterward with those that are left.
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| Source | UCSD Special Collections. Originally published in PM newspaper, as indicated by the notice in lower left corner: "Copyright 1942 by Marshall Field". Field was the publisher of PM . |
| Author | Dr. Seuss |
Licensing
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public domain
because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the
copyright was not renewed
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