Title: "Violence is Feared if Japs Return Now," Seattle Times, 12/13/1943, (ddr-densho-56-997)
Densho ID: ddr-densho-56-997

Violence is Feared if Japs Return Now

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13.--(UP)--Return of evacuated Japanese to the Pacific Coast during the war, will bring "violence and bloodshed," says a California State Senate committee which studied last month's riotous conditions at the Tulelake Segregation Center for disloyal Japanese.

In a telegram to President Roosevelt, Secretary of War Stimson and the California delegation, the committee said that it "fears and knows that the relocation in this state of the Japanese during the war will inevitably lead to violence and bloodshed."

The committee found that the administration of the Tulelake Segregation Center under the War Relocation Administration "lacked firmness and was utterly devoid of any definite policy," and repeated its recommendation that the Army retain control of the center.