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...these suspicious aliens will receive hearings before they are interned. Some may be paroled if found harmless, the rest will go to detention camps. Italians will probably join the 1,000 or so agents of the Duce who are now held at Fort Missoula, Mont. (TIME, Aug. 8). Germans may be sent to Fort Lincoln, N.Dak., where some 300 Nazis are now interned...
They will be considerably more comfortable than they would be at home. At both these concentration camps are warm barracks, playing fields, good food. Chef at Fort Missoula is Orlando Figini, who managed the restaurant in the Italian Village at the New York World's Fair...
...Missoula, Mont...
...Signor Tosi told how Axis citizens were jailed with common criminals, herded into concentration camps. Even women, he said, must suffer these outrages, "such is the fear that has gripped the soul of this psychologically childish people [of the U.S.]." Worst of all, the Italians in the camp at Missoula, Mont, are "watched by policemen, the majority of whom are Jews...
...policemen but U.S. Border Patrolmen guard the 900-odd Italians who are detained at scenic Missoula because there is no way of deporting them. The detainees (never referred to as prisoners) govern themselves, spend their time reading, listening to the radio, playing games, doing chores for pin money. They are not forced to work. Name of the camp, chosen by the inmates, is "Bella Vista" (see cuts...