Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they learned last week that, in a nation's hour of peril, having been born a citizen is not enough. So they began to pack their keepsakes, lift their slant-eyed children on their arms, and start on the long migration east across the Sierra Nevadas, to dreary inland country far from the blue sea. They were some of the West Coast's 70,000-odd Nisei. Their honorable ancestors were Japanese...
...hinted that Japs who settled in this region "in all probability will not again be disturbed"-provided they do not stumble on one of the 97 special areas (around dams and reservoirs, power plants and armories) which are also out of bounds. (Not one of the Governors of nine inland Western States wanted them...
There had been four possible routes. Last week Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King announced approval of a highway running far inland-northwest from Edmonton, beyond Grand Prairie, beyond Fort St. John, to Fort Nelson, Whitehorse and Fairbanks...
...inland route will be safe from shelling, if the Japs should raid the Pacific Coast; will ride over level country much of the way; and it passes through the oil fields of Alberta, handy to gasoline...
With one other invasion blow, the Japs could grab all they need of Australia for their immediate purposes. This blow would probably fall on two points: Cape York at the northern extremity of Australia's eastern coast, Gladstone at its center. Object: to close the inland waterway between the eastern shore and 1,200-mile-long Great Barrier Reef, give the Japs a protected channel more than half way from Cape York to the great port and naval base at Sydney. In Gladstone the Japs would take away one of the few oil depots the Allies have...