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To: RCW2001
Gotta love how many of my fellow palefaces on this thread go about condemning internment victims without considering how THEY would feel if they had their property confiscated (by FDR) and their families placed in internment camps.

Then again, these people are similar to the racist Californicators who cheered when the Asian exclusion acts were passed and when many of their neighbors were interned by FDR with the collaberation of RINO Earl Warren.

70 posted on 02/19/2002 8:30:53 AM PST by Clemenza
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To: Clemenza
Too all those lame-brained, so-called "conservatives" who are constantly defending the incarceration of Japanese Americans... read a few quotes from a guy who was close to Earl Warren in California government.

First, a few quotes about socialism and medicine from the interview of a guy who was in California government....

LEVENSON: And so who paid the doctors?

SCHOTTLAND: We paid them. The State Relief Administration. They were employees of the state.

LEVENSON: That's real socialism.

SCHOTTLAND: Yes, it was much more socialistic than Great Britain's program now, which at least has panel plans. This was straight state medicine.

Now, read his comments about Warren and the incarceration of 120,000 loyal Americans.

Regarding Earl Warren...

Here's something hot for all you history buffs... an interview with California State Director of Social Welfare, 1950-54, Charles Irwin Schottland; An Interview Conducted by Rosemary Levenson

See: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:2020/dynaweb/teiproj/oh/warren/executive/@Generic__BookView

Earl Warren as Executive: Social Welfare and State Parks

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Gullion and the Japanese-American Relocation LEVENSON: I want to ask about Gullion's views on the Japanese-American relocation. Can you tell me what they were?

SCHOTTLAND: No, I really don't know. I know that, as provost marshal general, he was in charge of all military police. In many respects he was very liberal.

LEVENSON: But not on the evacuation of Japanese-Americans from the West Coast?

SCHOTTLAND: No, not on that. He was brilliant. Of course, I saw the military point of view in this at the time, which was that you couldn't have hundreds of thousands of Japanese in such a spot, which could make it easy for the Japanese maybe to invade the Coast.

LEVENSON: However, there was never any move to evacuate them from Hawaii.

SCHOTTLAND: No, but there the military point of view was that it was too big a job, and the whole Hawaiian economy would collapse because they were so involved in everything. And the military view at the time also was that there were very few foreign-born Japanese in Hawaii, percentage-wise; I don't know whether this was statistically correct or not. Most of them were American citizens.

At any rate, there was that inconsistency. I talked to the General in Hawaii at the School of Military Government. He came to lecture. As I recall his attitude was that it was too big a job, and we felt we had the whole situation under control, and there wasn't any sense in making our job complicated. I also have a vague impression that he was close to two or three Japanese-Americans there, and they may have had some influence on him. I don't know.

LEVENSON: Did you ever have a chance to talk to General [John L.] DeWitt or Colonel [Karl R.] Bendetsen, of Western Defense Command?

SCHOTTLAND: Yes, I knew Colonel Bendetsen fairly well, but I never really talked to him about the Japanese problem. He was also interested in military government.

82 posted on 02/19/2002 11:14:32 PM PST by bonesmccoy
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