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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Responsibility for the Holocaust: Reply to Saumya Debray
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in the referenced article Mark Terribile writes:

Yes.  But for what it is worth, part of the motivation for moving the people
of Japanese ancestry out of the general population was to protect them, and
prevent killings and riots.  The wartime fervor against ``the Japs'' (which
was necessary to support the superhuman effort and sacrifice that won the war)
was a great hazard to the public safety, especially on the West Coast, where
invasion paranoia reigned supreme.

I'm not saying that the action was right --- only that it was well intentioned.
Further, a number of people around Roosevelt argued against it. 

	that`s a new one to me.  as i understood it, the motivation for
interning the Japanese was a mixture of xenophobic fear, desire to
expropriate their property (something the Germans indulged in vis a vis the
Jews as well. . .) and a desire to use them as cheap farm labor.  As I
recall, the latter was suggested to Stimson, who was opposed to it, and
opposed to the internment in general, but my recollection of the history is
a little hazy. 

						Robert Goldman