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Some 88% of the 126,947 Japs in the U.S. live along the Pacific Coast. California alone has 33,569 alien Japanese, another 60,148 U.S. citizens of Japanese descent. In the eyes of Tokyo, even the most domesticated U.S.-born Nisei are loyal subjects of Japan. In sum: California is Japan's Sudetenland...
California's Attorney General Earl Warren last week said he favored martial law. Under martial law, Nisei as well as alien Japanese could be removed from defense areas. Mayor Fletcher Bowron of Los Angeles did not want martial law. The Federal Government, he said, has been lax in dealing with the alien problem. He suggested that Western States move enemy aliens and Nisei to inland farms. A committee of West Coast Congressmen thought that some useful aliens could be licensed, allowed to stay...
...Nisei in Service...
...Nisei, an American citizen of Japanese parentage. Like many other Niseis, I am in the service of my country. This war has hit us harder, probably, than any other portion of the American society. It has caused suspicion to be cast on us, not because we have done anything of a suspicious nature, but because of our race. Let me assure you that we know and love only one country...
Unhappy too were Nisei, the 79,642 native-born citizens of the U.S. who are descendants of Japanese. Said a young Nisei with yellow skin, slant eyes, and a college education: "Over there I'd be a coolie. Over here...I have enough money to own a car, I can talk to any man. Over here, by God, we believe enough in what we have to fight Japan." But panic was in his heart. Would other U.S. citizens know the difference...