Issei Nisei Kibei. Fortune Magazine Reviews the Program of the War Relocation Authority...
[New York]: Fortune Magazine, October, 1944. 20pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Minor wear, two institutional ink stamps on front wrapper, one reading "Withdrawn." Very good. Item #5925
A scarce offprint of an article in Fortune Magazine on the "program of the War Relocation Authority and the problems created by the evacuation from the West Coast of 110,000 People of Japanese Descent." This copy bears a copyright date of April 1944, but also has an added ink stamp reading, "Revised by Fortune Magazine, October, 1944" on the copyright page. It is, effectively, a twenty-page screed on the hypocrisy of the U.S. government, the damage inflicted on Japanese Americans and the larger reputation of the United States, and the problem of larger discrimination against other groups if the persecution continues. The last section deals with the threat of lawlessness in California should the propaganda against alien enemies continue, and spread to other groups; this section concludes with a knockout punch: "In California, a state with a long history of race hatred and vigilantism, antagonism is already building against the Negroes who have come in for war jobs. What is to prevent their removal to jails, to 'protect them' from riots? Or Negroes in Detroit, Jews in Boston, Mexicans in Texas? The possibilities of 'protective custody' are endless, as the Nazis have amply proved."
Price: $550.00