Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Roosevelt gave the Army control over certain movements of U.S. citizens and resident aliens alike, authorized Secretary of War Stimson to throw anyone out of a "military area" whenever he saw fit. The order was not martial law-not quite. But from California, tense over its 98,000 alien-and-American-born Japs, came an audible sigh of relief. Washington had apparently waked up at last to the West Coast...
Ogden Hammond's daughter, Mary, was ordered interned as an enemy alien. Daughter of the wealthy ex-U.S. Ambassador to Spain, American-born Mary is married to Italian Count Guerino Roberti, onetime attache at the Italian Embassy in Washington. The Count and Countess will be taken to Hot Springs...
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingfiürst's 27-year-old son, Frangois-Joseph-Rudolf-Hans, professional artist's model, was taken to Ellis Island for a hearing before the Enemy Alien Board...
...Take over alien property...
California's Attorney General Earl Warren last week said he favored martial law. Under martial law, Nisei as well as alien Japanese could be removed from defense areas. Mayor Fletcher Bowron of Los Angeles did not want martial law. The Federal Government, he said, has been lax in dealing with the alien problem. He suggested that Western States move enemy aliens and Nisei to inland farms. A committee of West Coast Congressmen thought that some useful aliens could be licensed, allowed to stay...