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Sirs: TIME, Dec. 25, in an article entitled "The Nisei Go Back" gave some examples of communities venting their wrath on Nisei, including servicemen. I think they are doing a strictly amateurish job of hating...
...week) did not-and she finally walked out. Three years ago, as a member of the Sol Hurok troupe, she made another ballet exit-when the Government refused to let her go to California because of her Japanese blood. Sono, who has a brother with the Nisei 442nd combat team and is married to a young French-Moroccan architect, has never had any other trouble over race...
...almost two years, the right of the Government to shuffle citizens around at will had been a burning constitutional issue. But by the time the Supreme Court ruled this week, the question was academic. Day before, the Army had rescinded its mass evacuation order, told the loyal Japanese and Nisei they could return. Invasion, the Army explained, is no longer "a substantial possibility...
...Hood River, Ore. (pop. 3.280), American Legionnaires daubed paint on their servicemen's honor roll to obliterate the names of 16 Nisei soldiers...
...Parker, Ariz. (pop. 456), Andy Hale put a sign in his barbershop: "Japs Keep Out You Rats," ejected Raymond Matsuda, a Nisei veteran, wounded in Italy. . These were isolated instances, in small communities. But most of the U.S. Japanese on the West Coast lived in such small towns. And in the larger cities, the Hearst press kept up its anti-Japanese screams. California's Governor Warren, setting the tone for the vast majority of West Coast citizens, promised every effort to keep the return of the Nisei orderly...