Seattle Post-Intelligencer
collection: Museum of History and Industry Photographs
"American citizens of Japanese origin
were not even handled like aliens of the other enemy nationalities -- Germans
and Italians -- on a selective basis, but as untouchables, a group who could
not be trusted and had to be shut up only because they were of Japanese
descent..."
~
Francis Biddle, Attorney General, Postwar memoirs
The barracks in which the interned
families lived at Manzinar.
The
Journal of San Diego History Spring 1972, Volume 18, Number 2
"...My friends in the War Relocation
Authority, like Secretary Ickes, are deeply distressed over the effects of the
entire evacuation and relocation program upon the Japanese-Americans,
particularly upon the young citizen group. Persons in this group find
themselves living in an atmosphere for which their public school and democratic
teachings have not prepared them. It is hard for them to escape a conviction
that their plight is due more to racial discrimination, economic motivations,
and wartime prejudices than to any real necessity from the military point of
view for evacuation from the West Coast. Life in a relocation center cannot
possibly be pleasant. The evacuees are surrounded by barbed wire fences under
the eyes of armed military police. ..."
~
Milton S. Eisenhower, National Director of the WRA. To
Special Collections Department, J.
Willard Marriott Library,
"I have made a lot of mistakes in my
life... One is my part in the evacuation of the Japanese from
~
Tom Clark, After retiring as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, 1966
Source:
Michi Weglyn, Years of Infamy, Morrow Quill Paperbacks,