2,000 JAPANESE TO REGAIN U.S. CITIZENSHIP

RULING FOR NISEI TO BE YULE GIFT

By Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23. -- Federal Judge Louis F., Goodman presented a Christmas present to 2,000 Japanese-Americans today.

Judge Goodman ruled that the names of the 2,000 who had renounced their American citizenship during the war -- may be added to a list of Tule Lake Japanese whose citizenship will be restored. Approximately 2,900 names already are on the list.

The rulings will become effective in approximately 120 days -- or just about Christmas.

During the war, thousands of Japanese were kept in a Tule Lake relocation camp near the California-Oregon border.

Previously, Judge Goodman had ruled in an interlocutory decree that the Tule Lake Japanese renounced their citizenship under "duress" and therefore were deprived of it unlawfully. The decree, however, had not been entered officially, in order to permit the addition of names.

A telegram from the attorney-general's office in Washington today protested the inclusion of the 2,000 on the list, saying it would create an "intolerable" expense to the government to have in conduct an investigation prior to restoring citizenship.