The Relocation Camps Abolition Advocated Summary

The attack on December 7, 1941, in Pearl Harbor by Japan gave Americans a whole new perception on those living in the United States with Japanese ancestry. The attack would have Americans become skeptical about these human beings. The Los Angeles Times factual article “The Relocation Camps’ Abolition Advocated” dated May 8, 1943 describes the loyalty of Japanese-Americans in the internment camps. The article explains how there are some internees who declare their loyalty to America. Meanwhile in William Strand’s Chicago Daily Tribune editorial “Dies to Probe Jap and Negro Racial Unrest” dated June 24, 1943 reveals in depth the disloyalty and threatening acts of not only Japanese, but Japanese- Americans. Japanese around the nation after the
He writes about how Representative Dies believes most disorders in the country are being caused by Japanese. Such as the “race riots in Detroit with … death toll of 29 lives” which was blamed on the Japanese. The tragedy of those 29 Dies affirms were by “racial and subversive propaganda.” He describes how these threatening acts affect the way society views Japanese. Dies declares there is evidence of subversive activities by the Japanese. His committee believed that the Japanese are enemies and dangerous aliens to American
The assumptions of these devoted Japanese created the idea of segregating the good from bad. Some even proved their loyalty by volunteering to join the armed forces. Americans in the west objected to the idea and stated there was no such thing as loyal Japanese. West Coast Chairman, Costello, said, “separating loyal from disloyal Japanese through an F.B.I screening process was wrong.” A Representative, Jackson, from Washington commented to the media, he would like to see Japanese removed from the U.S.