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It was General DeWitt that ordered the evacuation under FDR's EO. Was DeWitt a racist or just a general attempting to protect America? No other Corps general ordered an evcuation.
A quote by DeWitt:
"In the war in which we are now engaged," he wrote Stimson on February 14, "racial affinities are not severed by migration. The Japanese race is an enemy race, and while many second- and third-generation Japanese born on United States soil, possessed of United States citizenship, have become `Americanized,' the racial strains are undiluted.... It therefore follows that along the vital Pacific Coast over 112,000 potential enemies of Japanese extraction are at large today." "A Jap's a Jap," he proclaimed later, "and that's all there is to it."
Should FDR have removed DeWitt, overruled him, or what? Of course this is just the tip of the iceberg to that event.
A quote by DeWitt:
"In the war in which we are now engaged," he wrote Stimson on February 14, "racial affinities are not severed by migration. The Japanese race is an enemy race, and while many second- and third-generation Japanese born on United States soil, possessed of United States citizenship, have become `Americanized,' the racial strains are undiluted.... It therefore follows that along the vital Pacific Coast over 112,000 potential enemies of Japanese extraction are at large today." "A Jap's a Jap," he proclaimed later, "and that's all there is to it."
Should FDR have removed DeWitt, overruled him, or what? Of course this is just the tip of the iceberg to that event.