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Show sess:..o s. e to rn e no tere u r o by t 1e r1y. cloy lty ing out, no separ tion of sheep from ~oats. •. .ost lUi uOd, 10 in th~ t the sitU tion or. It idn't, so b1 J li 1 id t cl t· ir 1ro. L :rewell to .Lriends, nd 1e1t to the temnorary O!IOV·l vO more pert rnent 1Ieloca.-ion11 con-p o_le of t'.e ... opaz olocrtion Center c ue fror.1 the "bay includes an r· ncisco, Oakland, Berkely end environs • . ras t.t1e Tanfor 11 Race t1c cl~, some 15 miles south ncisco . 10 hastily converted stables they ccme to live. Beleft 140 e , sc'10ols, ft 1d ,jobs, and most of their personal pos-fter sever8l nonths at ' ... anforvn, they v1ero set to a fenced- in s L,..re mile of t:i1e ce·1tral leah desert, guarded by a company of military poli e, :. ere t live until t'1e v?ar was over. :ne Ja !=!l1ese- neric::.ns in t,1is reloct:~tion center are acce ti~g _1 :.r . rooting pretty y;ell . 11en one considers the tremendous adjust - ent -- geoe;rc~ hicall·, socir>lly, economic~lly, psychologic2lly--they '1ave .t1ad to al·e, t 1ey have taken it on the chin gracefully. y morm for e~s reTent is to imagine how any other segment of our· opulat~on ·--auld 11ave taken it, German - · mer:!.ccns, say, or Itelian-A.rnericans or "er:.ca·1- Slars, or for t:i1at matter British-Americans of com)aratively rec~nt im igration. _·ile ClOSt vociferous ·.~retests ~18V6 been me.de by the risei (Ameri-ca: 1 born a 1d ec.luca~ed) . '::he reasons they '1e.ve t· e thoroughly Ameri- C"' _ trait o: deme1din~ their ric:1ts"; ti1ey 1ave .~.'elt the -oain of the :.:1sin_a-:ed charges r:wst deeply. erha:)s b1e Issei (.2irst cenerntion) and .ibe:.. t'1e.:.r trE<.ns~Jlanting, but they probably feel thet t'1ey do not _ave -:·.~.e ri,~ t to 'rights" like the _;_:_?-sei do • . 11ereas the assembly centers 1; ere ort:anized by t'1e . artitne Civil Control drJinistrat.:..on (a temporary hybrid of the U. s. Arny and otber Federe-.1 ar;encies including the .PA), the relocation centers e.re orge.nized a·1d co 1 trolled bJ the iRA, whose Jers onnel 1DC been s electea for fitness :.n !1andlin; a lnrr_:e · ublic uelfare sitL~atio.1 in all its r~.mificu. tio.1s. _he · fu has done a gre. t deal to i1fuoe faith ana ho_)e into the :b..earts of t 1e evacuees . _rom stories one hears, the initial asse!'..' lbly ~lad r:wny ugly as Jects. The situation uo.s unnrccedented; the stEff 1anc1lin', t~1e asser:1bly ·.vere not experts . F'ee ~-ngs ·were hurt, many seemi:1gly unnecessc; ry injustices and crudities committed. 17RA, on the other hand, is treating the matter from t~e st~nd point of n temporary soc i& 1 nroblem , and is trying to kee 1..~ it frou becoming s. pe rrJanent one. |
