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Has had a long talk with Emi Kimura, interned at Santa Anita, and who "told me so me pretty grim things about what is happening to the little children," hiding and trembling fear at the sight of police and white men. Help for Emi Kimura. "Put any adjective you want next to it -- and you still haven't described the evil of the evacuation and detention of the Japanese and Japanese Americans. I'm sure you and Marion know this, and I'm sure you also know that we can't change it, at least for a long time to come. A minority, perhaps, but swimming with the current of war hysteria forced this thing, powerfully aided by my compacency and inaction when action would have counted. Now we are a far tinier minority swimming against the current -- ie., we are politically impotent." Remarkable people in the Japanese camps. Reading John Woolman and his laboring against slavery.
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