Word: nisei
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...Nisei Troops...
Colonel Karl Robin Bendetsen last March began evacuating 110,599 Japanese and Nisei from a 150-mile West Coast strip to 16 temporary assembly centers in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona. This month he finished his seven-day-a-week job. He had placed all his charges in the care of the civilian War Relocation Authority in ten huge, permanent projects in California, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arkansas...
Sore-muscled Idahoans looked longingly toward California, where migrant Mexicans, Koreans and Filipinos who used to come to Idaho are staying contentedly on good pay, doing less back-breaking work, filling the Nisei's jobs...
...Governor of Idaho spoke too soon. He had said that he would not let a free Japanese laborer come into the State. Last week, because coast Nisei would not come-or could not come-to Idaho, Governor Chase A. Clark and 450 Capitol and Highway Bureau employes were out in the fields themselves, thinning and weeding sugar beets, trying to save the $10,000,000 crop...
...condition of this camp is just about the best that we can expect under the circumstances. The Army ration we are given daily is better than we ever expected (they say that it costs 48? a day per person). And the Japanese Nisei boys are saying that they should not forget the fact that they are. Americans, even if some fellow Americans may think that they should be treated as political prisoners. The Federal officials who are administering this camp are very courteous and considerate toward all of us. We do not have a jail here yet, and the administration...