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— 35 — flashed. Whether he actually did signal the Japanese before or during the attack has not yet been revealed by the War and'Navy Departments.130 There is no mystery about the interest of Germany and Italy in a successful attack by the Japanese military on the United States. Japan entered the war, undoubtedly partly at the behest of her Axis partners, when American aid to Great Britain was becoming an important factor in the European theater. No doubt Germany hoped that the United States would be fully occupied by a Pacific attack and would have to abandon England to a fate prepared for her by the Nazis. It is a crude absurdity, which we do not believe for a moment General DeWitt really shares, to think that Germany and Italy did not have as much interest in stopping West Coast war production as did Japan. Over sixty per cent of the airplanes, to mention but one item, which were being used in the European theater against Germany and Italy, and which were hunting down German submarines in the Atlantic, were being manufactured in West Coast plants. The Consolidated Liberator, so consistently used in the Mediterranean, the Lockheed Hudson, the Douglas Boston which guarded London, the Vultee Vengeance which the RAF used so successfully as a dive- bomber,—these are only a few of the names that come to mind in this connection.131 Mr. Kunze knew this. So did Mr. Kuehn and the others whom we have given dishonorable mention. Perhaps Nicholino Buonopane, 23-year-old electrician at North American Aircraft Corporation in Los Angeles, did also, for he confessed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents on October 9, 1942, that he had slashed wires on the interphone system, the heating controls and the wires leading to the fuel pressure gauges of B-25 bombers.132 If General DeWitt did not know that this is a global war in which enemies were equally' interested in both sides of the continent, the Germans and Italians did. We ask this Court to take judicial notice of the degree to which German and Italian success depended on stopping or curtailing West Coast war production, and of the obvious interest of Germany and Italy in victories for Japan in the Pacific. We ask that judicial notice be taken of the number of instances in which the German and Italian concern was translated into espionage and subversive activity on the West Coast and in Hawaii. We emphasize this particularly because in the Hirabayashi case this factor was totally overlooked by this Court. In its opinion this Court said: 'The fact alone that attack on our shores was threatened by Japan rather than another enemy power set these citizens apart from, others who have no particular associations with Japan."133 And, a few lines further on, this Court states: ... in time of war residents having ethnic affiliations with an invading enemy may be a greater source of danger than those of a different an- cestry."134 '^Chicago Tribune, June 15, 1943. "'Los Angeles Daily News, March 1, 1943. '"Ibid., October 10, 1942. Hirabayashi v. United States, p. 101. "'Idem.
Object Description
Title | The Case For The Nisei |
Subjects | Identity and values--Nisei |
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Genre | Books |
Language | eng |
Collection | Hirasuna Family Papers |
Collection Description | 113 items |
Project Name | California State University Japanese American Digitization Project |
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Title | Page 35 |
Creator | Japanese American Citizens League |
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Subjects | Identity and values--Nisei |
Type | image |
Genre | Books |
Language | eng |
Collection | Hirasuna Family Papers |
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Transcript | — 35 — flashed. Whether he actually did signal the Japanese before or during the attack has not yet been revealed by the War and'Navy Departments.130 There is no mystery about the interest of Germany and Italy in a successful attack by the Japanese military on the United States. Japan entered the war, undoubtedly partly at the behest of her Axis partners, when American aid to Great Britain was becoming an important factor in the European theater. No doubt Germany hoped that the United States would be fully occupied by a Pacific attack and would have to abandon England to a fate prepared for her by the Nazis. It is a crude absurdity, which we do not believe for a moment General DeWitt really shares, to think that Germany and Italy did not have as much interest in stopping West Coast war production as did Japan. Over sixty per cent of the airplanes, to mention but one item, which were being used in the European theater against Germany and Italy, and which were hunting down German submarines in the Atlantic, were being manufactured in West Coast plants. The Consolidated Liberator, so consistently used in the Mediterranean, the Lockheed Hudson, the Douglas Boston which guarded London, the Vultee Vengeance which the RAF used so successfully as a dive- bomber,—these are only a few of the names that come to mind in this connection.131 Mr. Kunze knew this. So did Mr. Kuehn and the others whom we have given dishonorable mention. Perhaps Nicholino Buonopane, 23-year-old electrician at North American Aircraft Corporation in Los Angeles, did also, for he confessed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents on October 9, 1942, that he had slashed wires on the interphone system, the heating controls and the wires leading to the fuel pressure gauges of B-25 bombers.132 If General DeWitt did not know that this is a global war in which enemies were equally' interested in both sides of the continent, the Germans and Italians did. We ask this Court to take judicial notice of the degree to which German and Italian success depended on stopping or curtailing West Coast war production, and of the obvious interest of Germany and Italy in victories for Japan in the Pacific. We ask that judicial notice be taken of the number of instances in which the German and Italian concern was translated into espionage and subversive activity on the West Coast and in Hawaii. We emphasize this particularly because in the Hirabayashi case this factor was totally overlooked by this Court. In its opinion this Court said: 'The fact alone that attack on our shores was threatened by Japan rather than another enemy power set these citizens apart from, others who have no particular associations with Japan."133 And, a few lines further on, this Court states: ... in time of war residents having ethnic affiliations with an invading enemy may be a greater source of danger than those of a different an- cestry."134 '^Chicago Tribune, June 15, 1943. "'Los Angeles Daily News, March 1, 1943. '"Ibid., October 10, 1942. Hirabayashi v. United States, p. 101. "'Idem. |