Mary Adams Urashima ~
Author. Historian. National Treasure Historic Wintersburg https://t.co/wRs201xy4h Tongva land. The kanji means history.
Jul 20, 2018 • 10 tweets • 9 min read
Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga (1925-2018) discovered a copy of "Final Report" produced by the Civil Affairs Division of the Western Defense Command in April 1943. Every copy of the report, drafts and notes, was directed to be destroyed.
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The Final Report stated it was "impossible to establish the identity of the loyal and the disloyal with any degree of safety." Meaning all Japanese Americans, the majority of whom were US citizens, were to be judged solely on their ethnicity/ancestry.
71 years after the Gouzenko affair.
Igor Gouzenko flipped and told a Court of King's Bench jury in Montreal, Canada, that it was Russia's intent "to undermine democratic countries within and inside..." #history