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Richard Reeves _ Infamy: The Shocking Story of
R. C. Hoiles,
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Honolulu's police chief William Gabrielson and Lieutenant General Delos Emmons, the army commander in Hawaii, stating that there were no acts of sabotage preceding or during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Hoover wrote, "The necessity for mass evacuation is based primarily upon public and political pressure rather than on factual data.
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Richard Reeves _ Infamy: The Shocking Story of
He lost that command because he made clear that he thought the commander of the America-backed Kuomintang, Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, was simply a corrupt warlord fighting not the Japanese but his great rival the Communist Mao Tse-tung. In the end, Washington sided with Chiang and Stilwell was recalled.
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Back at Santa Anita, a five-year-old boy, George Takei, who later became a famous actor, was fond of the searchlights. He thought they were there to help him find his way to the latrine and back-rather than to prevent him from escaping.
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Richard Reeves _ Infamy: The Shocking Story of
A small number of national columnists and commentators in other cities also resisted the California hysteria, among them Ernie Pyle of Scripps Howard and Chester Rowell,
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Riku, was harassed by scavengers wanting to buy her best dishes, worth about $200. One by one, she took the dishes out of their velvet jackets and smashed them at the men's feet.
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There were few men in press or politics willing to stand up for the rights of the Japanese living on the West Coast. The Santa Ana Register in Orange County,
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Richard Reeves _ Infamy: The Shocking Story of
The 442nd, exhausted and undermanned-the casualty list was over two thousand wounded and killed in just four weeks in the Vosges campaign-was
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after visiting the Santa Anita Assembly Center, quoted a small girl she had overheard talking to her mother: "I am tired of Japan, Mother. Let's go back to America.
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San Francisco Chronicle went the other way for three days, editorializing: "It is not necessary to imitate Hitler by herding whole populations, the guilty and the innocent together into even humane concentration camps.
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What the maps did not show was that Japanese farmers and workers had usually been there for decades, even generations, before the bases and other facilities were built."
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