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To: spyone
spyone wrote: Tell me what percentage then. I know in your country, Canada, virtually 100% were interned and their assets seized.

I'm not a Canadian, and what's more I'm old enougfh to remember WW II well.

I have no idea what percentage of the Japanese were actually interned and opposed to just being removed from the exclusion zone.

What caused FDR to decide on exclusion from the West Coast was the fact that in every country which the Japanese conquered an occupation government immediately emerged from among the Japanese expatriates there.

To him that indicated a very thorough penetration of the Japanese diaspora by Japanese intelligence.

41 posted on 09/05/2004 8:01:14 PM PDT by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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To: quidnunc

I understand his thoughts and the reasons for it. Check out the above link though. There were not 120,000 "hard cases". Imagine your government doing this to you. I have friends who lost everything. The fact the policy was reversed in two years tells you they realized it was a big mistake.


42 posted on 09/05/2004 8:05:42 PM PDT by spyone
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