The War Division of the Department of Justice replies to recommendations for Japanese Americans made by the Conference on Japanese Americans. The policy is established: no Japanese aliens and renunciant American citizens of Japanese ancestry will be…
Nakamura writes to Morris about the Crystal City Detention Center in Texas where Peruvian nationals of Japanese ancestry are being held. Most of them have already been sent to Japan (prisoner exchanges?). The roughly 40 families who remain want to…
Esther Rhoads responds to Fort about a AFSC report that was published that was highly critical of WRA workers. She writes about the progress in opening up more than half of 30 hostels to Japanese Americans moving back to Southern California, the work…
Rhoads writes to Morris, responding with her dismay at a report that was circulated from the Service Committee to hostel directors that was harsh or critical in tone (may have been about WRA workers or some service workers mistreating people? See…
The Department of Justice releases a statement saying that the people detained at Tule Lake and Justice Department camps are not released as are people from all of the other camps. The attorney general, Tom C. Clark, will review these cases. “These…
Resolution made by the Japanese American League. Letter from Morris to Conrad about the AFSC chapter's reservations in declaring support for this resolution.
Describes population increases (white, black and other minorities) in San Francisco during the war years and the intensified housing shortage. The 6,000 Japanese people who were evacuated would face this housing shortage too if they were to return…
Provides an overview of the Green Bill which proposed that relatives (parents and spouses) of people who served in the military during WWII (and for some WWI) would be granted access to citizenship (where before they could not before because of…