Title: "Dies Seeks End to Jap Plotting," Seattle Times, 1/30/1944, (ddr-densho-56-1017)
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DIES SEEKS END TO JAP PLOTTING

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. -- (UP) -- The Dies committee charged tonight that Japanese elements within this country still are plotting against the United States and called for immediate enactment of legislation to make such subversive activities impossible.

In a special report on Japanese subversion, the committee declared that Japan began plotting against this country immediately after the First World War, "when our guard was down," and still is carrying on its nefarious campaign "both in and out of Japanese relocation centers."

"It is the duty of Congress to begin now to enact legislation that will once and for all stop this foreign penetration of our country by those governments and groups which seek to destroy it," the committee said.

The committee staff is drawing up suggested legislation to prevent recurrence of similar subversive activities, it said.