To the editor:Quoting from G. W. Cornell's letter of Sept. 20 to the editor, "everything possible should be done to encourage all Japanese to return to their native land and..." Perhaps we could have just as easily relocated elsewhere but, my dear…
Only the possibility of serious harm to the nation could justify the compulsory uprooting of the thousands of American-born Japanese who are to be removed by the army from Pacific coast areas in which sabotage or aid to the enemy might be disastrous.…
To the Editor: Your insipid and practically anti-democratic editorial in Tuesday evenings paper (regarding return of Japanese) is a sickening display of shoddy thinking to the mind of at least one soldier who has now served his country for over three…
Cpl. Jack E. Kirby of Freedom, captured by the Japs at the fall of Corregidor in May, 1942, and prisoner in various prison camps in the Philippines until Sept. 3, 1945, writes the following to the Register-Pajaronian:"Since my return from the prison…
Date: 1994- Source: Una Storia Segreta: the Secret History of Italian American Evacuation and Internment during World War II, edited and with an introduction by Lawrence DiStasi; foreword by Sandra M. Gilbert. Type: ARTICLE
(Editor's Note: As a representative spokesman for Santa Cruz' Japanese population, Frank Masamori was asked to write the following article, outlining local Japanese impressions of the new war.)The Japanese-Americans of Santa Cruz were as shocked and…
