1943 4 14 Letter from Kay to Tom
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1943 4 14 Letter from Kay to Tom
Description
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Mixed/ambivalent treatment of highly educated/intelligent Chinese and Japanese by Army. Some girls go to grad school.
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Kay says that she's been asked if she wanted to take a scholarship and relocate. Kimi [not Kimi in family] received scholarship from Goucher College of Baltimore. Leaves for Denver (visit Chiyo and Chiye) then to Chicago. Kay admires her because she goes around with no one and is brainy. Mrs. Duveneck wants Kay to come to Chicago. She can leave anytime, but Kay hesitates. Kay recommends the New York College Summer Service Group for Tom. Lafabregue returned, rejected from Army. Man killed by MP's.
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Kay describes the killing of the 63-year-old because he walked too close to the barbed wire fence. Formal Military Hearing follows.
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Allowed on picnic hikes, but when children step outside of line, escorted back at point of machine gun. City of Delta despise the MP's, saying they are drunkards. Some MP's from the Wars in the Pacific. Remarks about wanting to shoot them Japs down. US must gain back confidence of JA's. Racism/oppression of Hitler is here too.
Mixed/ambivalent treatment of highly educated/intelligent Chinese and Japanese by Army. Some girls go to grad school.
Page 2:
Kay says that she's been asked if she wanted to take a scholarship and relocate. Kimi [not Kimi in family] received scholarship from Goucher College of Baltimore. Leaves for Denver (visit Chiyo and Chiye) then to Chicago. Kay admires her because she goes around with no one and is brainy. Mrs. Duveneck wants Kay to come to Chicago. She can leave anytime, but Kay hesitates. Kay recommends the New York College Summer Service Group for Tom. Lafabregue returned, rejected from Army. Man killed by MP's.
Page 3:
Kay describes the killing of the 63-year-old because he walked too close to the barbed wire fence. Formal Military Hearing follows.
Page 4:
Allowed on picnic hikes, but when children step outside of line, escorted back at point of machine gun. City of Delta despise the MP's, saying they are drunkards. Some MP's from the Wars in the Pacific. Remarks about wanting to shoot them Japs down. US must gain back confidence of JA's. Racism/oppression of Hitler is here too.
Creator
Kay Yamashita
Source
Notebook C page 41-44
Date
Apr 14, 1943
Language
English
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Collection
Citation
Kay Yamashita, “1943 4 14 Letter from Kay to Tom,” Yamashita Family Archives, accessed May 19, 2024, https://yamashitaarchives.ucsc.edu/items/show/551.
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