THE PRESS

A majority of American college students favor bombing civilian populations of Japanese cities, according to the Student Opinion Surveys of America.

In other words, more than 60 per cent of the students in American colleges favor the sort of retaliatory bombing rained upon the cities of Warsaw, Amsterdam, and London by the Nazis.

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We should strike at objectives in Japan and Japanese cities when we have the offensive strength and when such raids will aid the prosecution of the war. We should hit the enemy's fighters and industrial front, but we should not yield to baser emotions and bomb Japanese civilians, little responsible for this war, only for the revenge.

This should be no gentlemen's war; but the enemy should be hit only when our cause will be aided. And after the war is over a rational policy will pay dividends to future generations when the legacy of hate will be smaller. The Minnesota Daily.