QUOTE A DAY - June 26, 2012
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I was reading a book "Two Americans: Truman & Eisenhower and a Dangerous World". I was struck by the similarities in rhetoric between interning Japanese and the current anti-Muslim hysteria. Specifically, the great liberals, Walter Lipman and Earl Warren said the lack of sabotage proved Japanese intentions to harm us so they needed to be rounded up...
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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*While [Milton Eisenhower's] brother [Dwight] was furiously planning the American role in the war against a virulently racist enemy, the United States was carrying out ... the forcible mass evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from the Pacific coast on racial grounds alone.
--'Two Americans: Truman & Eisenhower & a Dangerous World'
There was a strain of anti-Japanese racism already present in American attitudes, especially on the Pacific coast. Then Pearl Harbor frightened people, giving that bigotry a huge jolt.
--'Two Americans: Truman & Eisenhower & a Dangerous World'
The general who held the Western Defense Command was ... Gen. John L. DeWitt [who] said, in response to the fact that two-thirds of the 120,000 evacuees were American citizens, 'A Jap is a Jap.'
--'Two Americans: Truman & Eisenhower & a Dangerous World'
**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**A generous parent would have said, 'if there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
See at the bottom for the answer*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*He reported to President Roosevelt that no sabotage by Japanese-Americans had as yet been confirmed, but he commented, in a circular response that itself has lived in infamy, that this fact only proved 'a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken.'
--'Two Americans: Truman & Eisenhower & a Dangerous World'
Walter Lippmann, favoring mass evacuation, wrote that the absence of sabotage by Japanese-Americans 'was an indication that they were lying low and waiting for a signal from Tokyo.'
--'Two Americans: Truman & Eisenhower & a Dangerous World'
California's attorney general, Earl Warren, testified that the absence of sabotage was 'the most ominous sign in our whole situation ... we are being lulled into a false sense of security.'
--'Two Americans: Truman & Eisenhower & a Dangerous World'
MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?A generous parent would have said, 'if there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
ANSWER: Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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