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...crown still has for Britons and the rest of the world is largely the residual glow from the past. It emanates from the legends and lives of England's kings, evoking images of silver trumpets raised on lofty battlements, the colored swirl of pennants and the flashing swords on Bosworth Field, and all the pageantry that still occasionally stirs in modern Western man the memories of his medieval passage...
AMERICA'S CONCENTRATION CAMPS by Allan R. Bosworth. 283 pages. Norton...
...danger, it turned out, was nonexistent. In this strident attack on the wartime sequestration, Allan R. Bosworth, 65, a retired U.S. Navy captain, points out that no Japanese American was ever accused of sabotage or treason in the continental U.S. Indeed, a large number of the internees volunteered for duty with a regiment composed solely of Nisei, and they set an enviable combat record in Italy. The regiment became the most decorated fighting unit in U.S. history...
...dollar. In retrospect, the story of the relocation camps adds up to one of the sorriest chapters in U.S. history, one that is only somewhat ameliorated by the fact that the internees were treated decently in the centers. It is a story that bears retelling, but Bosworth is the wrong man to do it. His angry account lacks not only literary grace but balance. As he fulminates against this lapse of democracy, the author descends to the irrationality that caused...
...should have kept the piece shorter, however. Though the writing reflects considerable discipline, the inchoate literary form she has chosen tempts Miss Bosworth into needless digressions. At times the juxtaposition of dialogue, description, and commentary becomes confusing, or worse, simply cute. Occasionally she packs too many images and adjectives into a paragraph. But these are technical criticisms. Here, I feel, is a writer with something legitimate to say and at least a rough knowledge...