# 6 Autumn 1983

Warner Bros were committed to attack the German Nazi party before any other Hollywood studio. After their representative in Berlin had been kicked to death by storm troopers they had broken off all dealings with Germany, and, as supporters of Franklin Roosevelt since 1932, they backed him against the isolationists.

Bugs, of course, was not alone. The feeling in America at this time was viciously anti-Japanese and permeated every medium. An extraordinary article in Time magazine in December 1941 entitled ‘How to tell your friends from the Japs’ gives a few rules at thumb to differentiate the Chinese – friends – from the Japanese.