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Show 146 I Historical Essays: Mainland North America tie of d priving the Japanese Canadians of citizenship and deporting them without due process of law and the need for testing the validity of legislation governing these actions. On March 16 in another editorial, "Deportation Orders Can Involve Big Constitutional Problems" ( 61:28, 1946, p. 9), SandwelJ challenged some of the judicial opinions which shaped the post-war ruling on summary deprivation of citizenship and deportation of natural-born and naturalized citizens. Representative contributions to Saturday Night from other sources include the following articles: Jean E. Ferguson's" Adventure in Citizenship" (57:43, July 4, 1942); "What Future for Japanese Canadians?" by Margaret Zieman (59:11, November 20, 1943); "The Problems of Japanese Canadians, and Solution" by Norman Fergus Black (59:22, February 5, 1944); "Why the Japanese Are Against Moving East" by Frank Morrison (62:13, November 30, 1946); and N. M. McDougal's "Gunnery School for lap-Canadians" (62:42, June 21, 1947). The United States experience with the Japanese is further treated in Bradford Smith's Americans from japan (Philadelphia: ]. B. Lippincott Company, 1948). This work is a comprehensive narrative of the Japanese experience in America from the time of the arrival of castaways to the period following the evacuation. Together with Yamato Ichihashi's work on the background of Japanese society in America, Japanese in !he United Stales: A Critical Study of the Problems of the japanese Immigrants and Their Children (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1932), it serves admirably as a review of the conditions under which the Japanese came to the United States and made it their adopted country. Roger Daniels in the Politics of Prejudice: The Anti-Japanese Movement in California and the Struggle for Japanese Exclusion (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1962) studies the anti-democratic agitation against the Japanese which culminated in their evacuation from the West Coast. He reviews the opposition to the Japanese displayed by groups supposedly dedicated to democratic ideals-labor unions, progressives, and the radicals of the left-and the paradox of conservative businessmen, educators, and clergymen who were often less anti-democratic. A new study by Daniels promises to be very significant: Concentration Camps, USA: Japanese Americans and World War II (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1972}. The historical and political aspects of evacuation and resettlement are covered in the book Japanese American Evacuation and Reselllemenf: Prejudice, War and the Constitution by Jacobus tenBroek, Edward N. Barnhart, and Floyd W. Matson (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1954). This work is a systematic analysis of the origins and consequences of the orders for the removal and dispersal of Japanese |
