Law and legislation

doc Letter from Lt. Col. Merillat Moses to Joseph Savoretti (ddr-densho-446-121)

Requests advice on the next steps Tsai should take. Also requests the return of the correspondence Tsai sent.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-121/

doc Letter from Ai Chih Tsai to Selective Service Board 88 (ddr-densho-446-152)

I was discharged from Office of War Intelligence due to "enemy alien" status.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-152/

doc Letter from A. C. Devaney to Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-127)

Response to Tsai's letter to the White House. Immigration and Naturalization Service does not amend registration records. In regards to deportation concerns, Tsai has been granted extension of visa until September 1, 1946. American consulate in Formosa has jurisdiction to approve non-enemy status when the consulate is reopened. The Chinese government has jurisdiction to approve registration …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-127/

doc Letter from Hugh Borton to Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-168)

Meet with William Bishop of the Legal Adviser's Office of the Department of State about changing your alien status.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-168/

doc Letter from Harrison Ray Anderson to Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-128)

Glad you are home again [after USSBS assignment]. H. Chandler would be glad to help. See Dr. Lloyd Ruland in NYC.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-128/

doc Letter from Ai Chih Tsai to Immigration and Naturalization Service (ddr-densho-446-117)

Request for assistance changing Tsai's status to Chinese Formosan, friendly alien, and a path to U.S. citizenship. Enclosed copies of previous request to Departments of State and Justice along with complete copies of these correspondences.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-117/

doc Letter from George "Jack" H. Kerr to U.S. Department of Justice (ddr-densho-446-114)

Letter in support of Tsai's requests to change his status to friendly alien. Kerr offers strong support for Tsai's character, ability, and assistance to US war effort.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-114/

doc Letter from Lt. George Kerr to Immigration and Naturalization Service (ddr-densho-446-139)

Support for Ai Chih Tsai's request for passport extension. Describes the great importance of Tsai's work to the Navy. Tsai is employed and student visa may be invalid. How to renew the validity of his passport? Has Chinese certificate #1.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-139/

doc Letter from Lt. Col. E. M. Hudgins to U.S. Department of Justice (ddr-densho-446-115)

Letter in support of Tsai's requests to change his status to friendly alien. Hudgins is Tsai's supervisor in current Military Intelligence Service position. Hudgins offers strong support for his character, ability, assistance to US war effort.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-115/

doc Letter from Robert Cashman to Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-125)

Introduction to Henry Chandler in U.S. Supreme Court

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-125/

doc Letter from Ai Chih Tsai to President Franklin D. Roosevelt (ddr-densho-446-123)

Request for executive action to change status to "friendly alien" based on prior work for U.S. government in order to avoid deportation, to avoid consequences for wife and baby, and to allow Tsai to be considered for employment in the American Consulate in Formosa and Chinese Embassy [typed draft]

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-123/

doc Letter from Mike Masaoka to Shunichi Murata (ddr-densho-379-225)

On behalf of Alice Yuriko Endo and Frank Aiji Endo, Mike Masaoka explored Shunichi Murata's, (now living in Japan) request for return of his vested property from the Office of Alien Property, Department of Justice.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-225/

doc Japanese immigration: the California point of view (ddr-csujad-55-364)

Pamphlet describing perspectives on Japanese immigration to California including economics, assimilation, tensions, "kankodan" or "picture brides," birth rates, "Gentleman's Agreement", rights, and regulations. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0366

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-364/

doc Japanese in California: comments in the California press (ddr-csujad-55-360)

Collection of articles on Japanese in California reprinted from California newspapers. Articles include "Anti-Japanese agitation", "Lyman Gage on the Japanese", "Always at hand", "Senator Phelan and the Japanese", "California mission to Japan", "Church Federation on the Japanese question", "Proposed initiative measure" "The Japanese in California", "Cultivate friendly relations with Japan", "The picture bride", "Stephens is right", …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-360/

doc Certificate of registration (alien poll tax. pol. code sec. 3841) (ddr-csujad-55-2538)

Certificate of registration for Takaichi Tsukamoto for the Alien Poll Tax Policy. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2645

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-2538/

doc Bargain and sale deed (ddr-csujad-55-2570)

W. E. Schwarz, of San Francisco, California sold property to Hideo Nakamura of Marysville, California for ten dollars. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2682

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-2570/

doc Appeal to justice (ddr-csujad-55-361)

Pamphlet by George Shima (Kinji Ushijima) on the proposed revisions to the California Alien Land Law of 1913 (Webb-Haney Act). See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0363

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-361/

doc Opinion (War Relocation Authority), no. 80 (August 5, 1944) (ddr-csujad-55-1672)

Report from Philip M. Glick, Solicitor, War Relocation Authority on the effect of alien land laws on the acquisition of property by individuals of Japanese ancestry. Covers the character of alien land law prohibitions, California alien land laws, the act of 1913, the act of 1920 as amended by acts of 1923 and 1927, amendment of …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1672/

Draft of petition to the President of the United States of America from American citizens of Japanese ancestry at Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming (ddr-csujad-55-877)

doc Draft of petition to the President of the United States of America from American citizens of Japanese ancestry at Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming (ddr-csujad-55-877)

Draft petition letter to the President of the United States regarding clarification of the citizenship status of United States citizens of Japanese ancestry incarcerated at Heart Mountain. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0879

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-877/

doc America's Japanese problem (ddr-csujad-55-356)

Pamphlet written in response to the proposed revisions to the California Alien Land Law of 1913 (Webb-Haney Act). Includes sections on immigration, California statistics, "picture brides", Japanese-owned land in California, and discrimination in California land laws. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0358

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-356/

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