"See/hear/say no evil" monkeys

[Donald M. Lance]

We're all capable of manufacturing memories, but I'm sure I saw the three monkeys in some friends' house early in World War II  It had to be 1941-43 because of when we visited this family.   DMLance

Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

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> SEE NO EVIL (continued)
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>   Was the phrase popular AFTER WWII?  I just tried both Making of America databases for "three monkeys" and "see no evil" and other combinations (monkey & evil, monkey& Japan).  No luck at all!  And the MOA databases certainly had articles about Japan from about 1860-1900.
>   The monkeys are now working for Janet Reno`s campaign finance investigation, I`m told.