NOT HALF LICKED YET

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 58, 6 September 1945, Page 7

NOT HALF LICKED YET

AMERICAN'S IMPRESSION OF

JAPANESE

PEARL HARBOUR, September 4. Vice-Admiral McCain, commander of Task Force 38, after his return to Pearl Harbour from the surrender ceremony aboard the Missouri, told the Press: "The Japanese warlords are not half licked yet, and they will take a lot more killing in the future. I did not like the look in their eyes." , When asked why, Admiral McCain barked: "Listen, baby. They were just measuring us—just as you measure a man when you are going to hit him the next minute. They do not know they are licked yet. They do not know we are better men than they are." He said he approved of Admiral Halsey's expressed desire to kick the Japanese generals in the face, except that it was not in the face he thought about kicking them. He described the surrender ceremony as "quite a pageant," and added, "It had colour, drama, everything. No movie actor could have played the part of General Mac Arthur better than MacArthur himself played. He was just right, a rough, tough guy, and that is what the job needed and still needs." Admiral McCain said he was not over-worried about the atomic bomb changing future military methods too drastically. "You give me enough fast cruisers and let me run them, and they can have their atomic bombs," he said.