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"We should feel equally ashamed of our treatment of our West Coast citizens of Japanese extraction."
Major General Harry H. Vaughan, U.S. Army
"Our worst wartime mistake... a tragic and serious mistake... almost incredible. Its motivation and
impact on our system of law deny every value of democracy."
Professor Eugene V. Rostow, Under Secretary for Political U.S. Affairs
"Without precedent in American history... the first time that the United States Government
condemned a large group of people to barbed wire enclosures - the first event in which danger to the
nation's welfare was determined by group characteristics rather than by individual guilt... the first
program in which Race alone determined whether an American would remain free or incarcerated."
Dr. Morton Grodzins, Americans Betrayed, University of Chicago Press, 1949
Dr, Morton Grodzins went on to say: "No charges were ever filed against these persons, and no
guilt was ever attributed to them. The test was ancestry, applied with the greatest rigidity.
Evacuation swept into guarded camps, orphans, foster children from white homes, Japanese married
to Caucasians, the offspring of such marriages, persons who were unaware of their Japanese ancestry,
and American citizens 'with as little as one-sixteenth Japanese blood."
Judge Frank Murphy, described the round-ups and detentions as: "An ugly abyss of racism" and the
court's upholding of it as "legislation of racism."
It is revealing to note the Jewish-American support for this 'ugly abyss of racism', not the least Walter
Lippman, America's top political commentator who suggested ways by which the United States
Constitution could be by-passed and legalized by Justice Felix Frankfurter, an Austrian Jew.
CIVILIAN SLAVES
"Many of the slaves in fact had never served in the German armed forces. They included German
seamen illegally seized by the Americans before they entered the war, U.S-German citizens, and
German civilians who had previously lived in South American countries. Even anti-Nazi Germans
who had returned from America to help families and friends in dire need were 'nabbed for
enslavement.' - The Chicago Daily Tribune, March 14th 1946
CONDEMNATION
THE POPE ON PRISONERS-OF-WAR AS SLAVES
"... we remember with profound sorrow all those who, although the end of the war has been
proclaimed, must this year again pass the beautiful season in a foreign land and feel ... the torment of
their uncertain lot and of their separation from parents, wives, children, brothers, sisters; all their dear
ones."
Referring to them as ''children' still held in prison,' he prayed. 'May they receive and be comforted by
our wish - shared by all who cherish the sense of man's brotherhood - to see them regularly and
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