Their Best Way to Show Loyalty: An Editorial

Their Best Way to Show Loyalty: An Editorial

California
Japanese Internment
Newspaper

A transcript of an editorial piece published by The San Francisco News noting that Japanese people and people with Japanese Ancestry voluntarily evacuating and being relocated is the way to show their loyalty to the state. Notes that people have been protesting that they are loyal to the Unites States but by agreeing to be evacuated and relocated it would be showing that they are loyal. Notes that relocation should be supported by all people of racial backgrounds to show that they are willing to cooperate. Then continues to note that the relocation will be carried out with minimal hardship, food will be provided by the state. Then finishes that it will be for the Japanese people’s own safety noting that if even a small act of sabotage occurs, heavy reprisals will happen which could escalate to race riots, the relocation would move the Japanese out of harm’s way.

The San Francisco News, San Francisco

Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist8/editorial1.html

6 March 1942

Michael Wilsher

A NOTE ON RIGHTS: All searches and links to find the original source was redirected to the transcript linked here, The San Francisco News did not appear on free to use online archives, presumably the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco hosts the original but that is just speculation.

Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco, http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist8/editorial1.html

English

Textual - printed newspaper

20th century California