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...jump at a brand-new War Department ruling permitting alien Japanese to enlist in the U.S. Army. Ebihara, whose younger brothers & sisters are all citizens, was brought to the U.S. at the age of two. A Cleveland war-plant worker, he had asked both Franklin Roosevelt and War Secretary Stimson for a chance to fight. Said he: "My people are Americans, even though I was born in Japan and can't be a citizen because my skin is yellow. This war isn't one race against another-it is a war of ideas and principles. I want...
Probably all these factors contributed to the shortage. But the cigarets still were not to be found. The Senate war investigating committee decided to make a survey. Secretary of War Stimson called it a problem of supply, promised that the situation would be corrected "as soon as possible." General Eisenhower ordered MPs to crack down harder than ever on the black market, ordered the court-martial of all G.I.s engaged in shady deals...
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson has rejected a proposal by the American Defense--Harvard Group committee for the education of Nazi prisoners of war in this country. The two letters from the War Department disagreeing with the Harvard committee's resolutions were made public Tuesday by Warren A. Seavey '02, Bussey Professor of Law and vice chairman of the Harvard Group...
...answer to the request that discussion groups and books advancing democratic principles be provided for the prisoners, Secretary Stimson said that, "All prisoners ... are free to express their desires for education and ...their interests are encouraged by the War Department through making available to them the necessary materials, time, and opportunity...
Among the proposals was also a plan for a civilian survey within the camps to ascertain the number of prisoners who would actually profit by democratic education. This, too, Secretary Stimson vetoed. He declared that the War Department has for some time followed the practice of segregating co-operative from non-cooperative prisoners and that a survey could add nothing to the present information or methods. "On the contrary," he said, "it probably would create suspicion and dissatisfaction ... and defeat the very purpose you have in mind...