Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10

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INTERVIEW: Louis Amador Page 24 LA: thing in that place and they all have pretty good positions, I just laborer, I was just a laborer course I was making pretty good money in those days compared to . the rest of the whole country but those Japs they are 'the best Japs, easy, and I told them I was working with the American boy and he told me one day Jesus, those peoples they're well cultivated, oh, they're well educated I say, I don't know, when I say that he even got sore at me, what do you mean? I say, well I got a feeling one of these days, these nice people gonna foo1 Uncle Sam. He says, ah, no, he says, never~ he says, they never do that but then, but that was in 30, 1 29, ___ __ and '41, eleven years later wham! I like to meet him, I don't if he's still alive, but to ask him what to think of these nice Japanese people. VM: When was this one, what year was this that you went into this Japanese restaurant and you saw these. LA: Well, that was, well in '41, about two months before that conflict but the reason I figured now up today that they all knew even in this country they knew when they was gonna hit. And I think, I'm even, I'm not sure but I'm thinking the White House knew. But they let them go through not knowing the damage it was going to do. Cause they really if they if that little atomic thing stop them well probably let them have it,