U.S. Treatment Of Nisei Draws Strong Protest

SPOKANE, Dec. 5. -- (AP) -- A Nisei speaker at a conference here yesterday said Nisei are proud to be Americans, but he expressed some dissatisfaction with treatment accorded his group.

The speaker, Mike Masaoka of Washington, D.C., told more than 100 second-generation Japanese from Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland and Hood River, Or., that the Nisei have given proof of their devotion to America in their own blood on the field of battle.

Masaoka is a veteran of the 442nd Infantry Battalion, most decorated unit in American history, which distinguished itself in Second World War battles in Italy.

Targets of Masaoka's wrath included the incarceration of Japanese-Americans in "American concentration camps," the alien land law and the Hood River American Legion Post, which removed the names of Nisei from its honor roll.