Word: nisei
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...this strident attack on the wartime sequestration, Allan R. Bosworth, 65, a retired U.S. Navy captain, points out that no Japanese American was ever accused of sabotage or treason in the continental U.S. Indeed, a large number of the internees volunteered for duty with a regiment composed solely of Nisei, and they set an enviable combat record in Italy. The regiment became the most decorated fighting unit in U.S. history...
...favor either in the White House or in the power fastnesses of Congress." At another time, Kraft is quick to point out, Hoover was "a model of zeal for civil liberties." When liberals from Earl Warren to Walter Lippmann were demanding that California's Nisei be put in concentration camps for the duration of World War II, the FBI chief hotly protested, claiming that the demand for evacuation was "based primarily upon public and political pressure rather than upon factual data...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Nisei: The Pride and the Shame," a documentary on the Japanese Americans who were in internment camps in the U.S. during World War II while other Japanese Americans were fighting and dying in the armed services...
...convincing case that no other Justice of the high court in recent times has so consistently championed civil liberties. During World War II, especially, when every other Justice forgot about civil liberties for the duration, Murphy never wavered, and his lone dissent from the decision to incarcerate the California Nisei was a model of both courage and good law. Along with its pragmatists, Roche concludes, the U.S. needs a sprinkling of such Utopians as Murphy...
...friendly foe," Maritime Negotiator J. Paul St. Sure: "It got a little trying for him to hear all the time about what a rough s.o.b. he was. He likes his present role." Although Bridges lives in a modest two-bedroom house with his third wife Noriko, 40, a Nisei, on a salary of $14,040 a year, he nonetheless basks in the welcomes he receives at such, big businessmen's haunts as San Francisco's Commonwealth and Bohemian Clubs...