To: LS
I have a little different take on FDR's action. By February 1942, it was well know that the Imperial Japanese expansion would be southward, the Philippines and Indonesia. In fact the military was confident enough to allow the West Coast Aircraft Manufacturing plants to expand, rather than relocate.
The answer lies in every County Tax Collectors records on the West Coast. For when FDR put them into camps, he also frozen all bank accounts. Funny, as a Japannes-American you could be on the East Coast, welding submarines, living a normal life.
But if one was of that ancestry else where, off to jail with you.
To: investigateworld
Which is exactly the case, opposite, in the east, where if you were an Italian American with ties to certain organizations, or a German American, you were investigated (and sometimes held in "camps") by the FBI.
426 posted on
11/10/2005 5:50:56 AM PST by
LS
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