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— 40 — The procedure was to have the alien fill out a detailed questionnaire or application and to present him with the Certificate only after a check had been made of the application and the applicant. Applications were accepted only from those who could show an alien registration receipt card and the Certificates were delivered through the mail to prevent any deception concerning addresses. An alien was required to carry the Certficate with its photograph, fingerprint and signature with him at all times, under penalty of internment.154 The idea that the Japanese community went on its way blissfully and undisturbed, with time, money, personnel and strength for subversive activity until General DeWitt decided upon evacuation seems absurd indeed when one of the best informed authorities on the subject describes what really occurred: "Some aliens, suspected of subversive activity, had long been under surveillance by agents of the Bureau, but most of those detained were taken up because their positions in business, in Japanese associations, or in Japanese communities, made them possible organizers and leaders of fifth-column activity. They were officers of powerful Japanese concerns like Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Yokohama Specie Bank, and Sumitomo Bank, or men who had held important positions in Japan, or Japanese newspaper correspondents, or top men in their communities, or men whose organization activities would not wash clean under Bureau scrutiny. . ." "The FBI's roundup of enemy aliens was but one phase of the process of tightening government control of the property and persons of Japanese. The machinery of the Treasury Department was put in motion to stop all business and financial transactions involving Japan. The Treasury Department's General License No. 68 was revoked. Under this, Japanese nationals continuously residing in the United States on or since June 17, 1940, had carried on business after the general freezing order of June 14, 1941. On December 7 Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., issued Public Circular No. 8 under Executive Order No. 8389, which read: 'All general licenses, specific licenses, and authorizations of whatsoever character are hereby revoked in so far as they authorize, directly or indirectly, any transaction by, on behalf of, or for the benefit of, Japan or any national thereof.' Simultaneously, the FBI forbade travel by alien Japanese and Japanese-Americans alike. "The impact of these orders upon the life of the Japanese community was severe. Those away from home for the week end were unable to return. Employees could not draw their wages. Households were caught without funds to purchase food, and grocers were forbidden to provide food on credit. Truck gardeners and florists could not sell their produce. Insurance companies cancelled policies on automobiles owned by alien Japanese. . . ". . . After the first roundup of enemy aliens by the FBI, Japanese' Americans were permitted to travel in their own automobiles and to "'A Week of the War, official publication of the Office of Facts and Figures, Jan»' ary 18, 1942: Pacific Citizen, Vol. XIV, No. 161, January, 1942.
Object Description
Title | The Case For The Nisei |
Subjects | Identity and values--Nisei |
Type | image |
Genre | Books |
Language | eng |
Collection | Hirasuna Family Papers |
Collection Description | 113 items |
Project Name | California State University Japanese American Digitization Project |
Rights | Rights not yet transferred |
Description
Local ID | csufr_hfp_0782 |
Project ID | csufr_hfp_0782 |
Title | Page 40 |
Creator | Japanese American Citizens League |
Date Created | Unknown |
Subjects | Identity and values--Nisei |
Type | image |
Genre | Books |
Language | eng |
Collection | Hirasuna Family Papers |
Collection Description | 5.13 x 8.50in |
Rights | Rights not yet transferred |
Transcript | — 40 — The procedure was to have the alien fill out a detailed questionnaire or application and to present him with the Certificate only after a check had been made of the application and the applicant. Applications were accepted only from those who could show an alien registration receipt card and the Certificates were delivered through the mail to prevent any deception concerning addresses. An alien was required to carry the Certficate with its photograph, fingerprint and signature with him at all times, under penalty of internment.154 The idea that the Japanese community went on its way blissfully and undisturbed, with time, money, personnel and strength for subversive activity until General DeWitt decided upon evacuation seems absurd indeed when one of the best informed authorities on the subject describes what really occurred: "Some aliens, suspected of subversive activity, had long been under surveillance by agents of the Bureau, but most of those detained were taken up because their positions in business, in Japanese associations, or in Japanese communities, made them possible organizers and leaders of fifth-column activity. They were officers of powerful Japanese concerns like Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Yokohama Specie Bank, and Sumitomo Bank, or men who had held important positions in Japan, or Japanese newspaper correspondents, or top men in their communities, or men whose organization activities would not wash clean under Bureau scrutiny. . ." "The FBI's roundup of enemy aliens was but one phase of the process of tightening government control of the property and persons of Japanese. The machinery of the Treasury Department was put in motion to stop all business and financial transactions involving Japan. The Treasury Department's General License No. 68 was revoked. Under this, Japanese nationals continuously residing in the United States on or since June 17, 1940, had carried on business after the general freezing order of June 14, 1941. On December 7 Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., issued Public Circular No. 8 under Executive Order No. 8389, which read: 'All general licenses, specific licenses, and authorizations of whatsoever character are hereby revoked in so far as they authorize, directly or indirectly, any transaction by, on behalf of, or for the benefit of, Japan or any national thereof.' Simultaneously, the FBI forbade travel by alien Japanese and Japanese-Americans alike. "The impact of these orders upon the life of the Japanese community was severe. Those away from home for the week end were unable to return. Employees could not draw their wages. Households were caught without funds to purchase food, and grocers were forbidden to provide food on credit. Truck gardeners and florists could not sell their produce. Insurance companies cancelled policies on automobiles owned by alien Japanese. . . ". . . After the first roundup of enemy aliens by the FBI, Japanese' Americans were permitted to travel in their own automobiles and to "'A Week of the War, official publication of the Office of Facts and Figures, Jan»' ary 18, 1942: Pacific Citizen, Vol. XIV, No. 161, January, 1942. |