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Director Denies Jap-Americans Being CoddledLillie Hock, Ark.~./P-~DenyW any attempt to coddle the Jan*, nese-Americans” in two smuheLtArkansas relocation camps, Heel™Ial Director E. B. Whitaker of ' ?£ i war relocation authority asserted Saltirlt;1 ay night no one'in chart* of the renters barI any idea that they were utopias.The average American's Idea 0i a utopia certainly would not he a place where families eat in n * hails and where military P0|jc* guard the communiiy, keeping outsiders out and insiders in,' tVhlt alter said in n prepared statement answering: rccenl published descrln. lions of conditions at the Jeroi£' camp,Whitaker is in charge of thi Jerome and Robwcr camps in eBch of which nre located approximately8,000 Japanese, many American. born, from the Pacific coast andHawaii.••We do not claim we are doings perfect job, Whitaker said, but we do contend that the general public in passing judgment on. WRA should keep in mind fh*t th» evacuees are living in a different section of the country than they have been accustomed to. leather working and living conditions ars vastly changed for these people,Nobody should expect a person [to change overnight from an office j worker or a merchant to woodi-jman and former, regardkw of hi* race or color/'
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Kingsport Times
Kingsport, Tennessee, US
Sun, Jan 10, 1943
Page 16
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