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Await Orders forAlien EvacuationAll Protests Are Disregarded(Continued From Page One)e:1919WiLIPICJFtate would receive evacuated aliens as a contribution to the war effort, and Gen. DeWitt telegraphed him the army’s thanks.The final decision as to who will | he excluded, from where and when are “military decisions which must be based on military necessity, DeWitt said.%He was strongly critical of those who carried “unfounded rumors and “so-called official statements regarding Pacific coast evacuation.Nevertheless, executives of the Japanese-American Citizens League were preparing their members for complete evacuation from the coast. They pledged whole-hearted cooperation with the army in effecting the mass movement as quickly and as easily as possible to forestall any bitterness that might result.Public Must Accept ThemOnly the army knows where these evacuees will go, and Dfe-Witt made plain that wherever they are moved, the public must j accept them.“Public clamor for evacuation from non-strategic areas and the insistence of local organizations and officials that evacuees not be moved into their communities cannot and will not be heeded, he ta said.“Considerations of national security come first.“The appropriate agencies ot the federal government are engaged in iM I • i.!____ 1 _ J-«1FPCiP'ElLIpr nii A i Blt;Oilofislinfar-reaching preparations to deal with the problem. A study is in progress by those agencies regarding the protection of property, ' jTg tl\e resettlement and relocation of gt those who are affected.“The complete preparations will include measures designed to safeguard as far as possible property and property .rights, to avoid the depressing effect of forced sales, and generally to minimize resulting economic dislocations.“As soon as these studies are concluded, definite designation of ^persons to be effected will be i made.” I cjjlisadwitilremegXT
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Corona Daily Independent
Corona, California, US
Mon, Mar 02, 1942
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