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MASS INLANDMIGRATIONALIENS LOOMS1Ilt;1II1*tctrrr/A SAN FRANCISCO, March 2 (INS).—All Japanese, foreign andAmerican-born alike, in California, Oregon and Washington were preparing today for a mass inland migration as the army neared com-jDletion of an evacution order affecting Pacific coast Axis aliens.Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt, head of the fourth army and the western defense command, took time out while preparing the proclamation to publicly crack down on what an Official release termed unfounded rumors and so-called ‘official statements’ ’’ regarding removal of enemy aliens.In his second public statement since the attack on Pearl Harbor ec. 7, Gen. DeWitt, at his head-uarters in the San Francisco presidio, declared:Will Ignore Pleadings Public clamor for evacuation j St from non-strategic areas and the Jnsistence of local organizations | if find officials that evacuees not be w moved into their communities can- cf not and will not be heeded, for cc considerations of national secur- $f lty must come first. ecMilitary necessity, he said, was L «he sole yardstick by which thejcc army would select west coast military areas from which citizens as si well as enemy aliens may be evac- Muated under authority granted fo General DeWitt by President m ^ioosevelt. m^ The only western governor to ex- L« press willingness to accept the pi evacuated Japanese, Germans and 19 Italians was Ralph L. Carr of Colo- fi rado. Governor Carr said Colorado would do so as its contribu- so0-ion to national security. To him j ec General DeWitt dispatched the jar following telegram: 00Thanked For Move Your position as to willingness fr of Colorado to aid in solving thejth Japanese evacuation program is a most laudable one. I am hopeful I that the governors of other states j Jc in this region will take a similar position, as it will be most helpful to me in solving this problem.” However, this hope w’as thwrarted Wlor the time being at least asCongressman John Tolan (D-Cal.) made public the telegrams of protest received from the governors of Arizona, Idaho, Oklahoma, Montana, WTyoming, New Mexico, Ar-^fkansas and South Dakota.A moderately co-operative attitude was seen in the wire fromGov. E. P. Carville of Nevada who said his state would not object if the aliens were kept underbeatMtevi18proper supervision.in JOianStwibetuada56!pUpa
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Port Arthur News
Port Arthur, Texas, US
Mon, Mar 02, 1942
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