Title: Editorial: "Return Postage Guaranteed," Bainbridge Island Review, 7/1/1943, (denshopd-i68-00095)
Densho ID: denshopd-i68-00095

RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED

What to do about the segment of the population which insists on turning their impatience at our slow progress against the Japs in the Pacific war zone into blind hatred of loyal Japanese-Americans in the nation had us stumped for awhile.

Then the United States Supreme Court, highest tribunal in the land, rendered a decision in the test case in which certain nisei argued that their forced evacuation was illegal. The court, as we thought it would, ruled that the Army's evacuation order was legal . . . but the court added these words:

"When the danger is past the restrictions imposed on them should be promptly removed and their freedom of action fully restored."

That should be a pretty effective answer to such race-hatred actions as that taken by the coast convention of the Teamsters' Union in passing a resolution seeking to bar forever the return of the nisei to their homes here. We doubt if even the Teamsters will dare flaunt the Supreme Court.

This country is engaged in a fight for the Four Freedoms. It is most gratifying to know that the Supreme Court feels that the Four Freedoms should be applied within our borders as well as throughout the rest of the world.