Title: Bayonets in paradise : martial law in Hawaiʻi during World War II /
Authors: Scheiber, Harry N.,; Scheiber, Jane L.,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Martial law Hawaii History; Japanese Americans Legal status, laws, etc. Hawaii History; World War, 1939-1945 Law and legislation United States.; World War, 1939-1945 Hawaii.; Japanese Americans Legal status, laws, etc.; Legislation; Martial law; Hawaii History; Hawaii; United States
Abstract: Bayonets in Paradise recounts the extraordinary story of how the army imposed rigid and absolute control on the total population of Hawaiʻi during World War II. Declared immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack, martial law was all-inclusive, bringing under army rule every aspect of the Territory of Hawaiʻi's laws and government institutions. Even the judiciary was placed under direct subservience to the military authorities. The result was a protracted crisis in civil liberties, as the army subjected more than 400,000 civilians--citizens and alien residents alike--to sweeping, intrusive social and economic regulations and to enforcement of army orders in provost courts with no semblance of due process. In addition, the army enforced special regulations against Hawaiʻi's large population of Japanese ancestry; thousands of Japanese Americans were investigated, hundreds were arrested, and some 2,000 were incarcerated.^
Contents: Prelude to martial law : security and the "Japanese problem" -- Final war planning for Hawaiʻi, 1939-1941 : martial law and selective internment -- Implementation of martial law and military government -- Life under general orders -- Control of labor -- "Drum-head justice" : the military courts and the suspension of habeas corpus -- An extreme degree of fear? -- Selective detention and removal -- Determining loyalty : review boards, questionnaires, and racial profiling -- The fate of the detainees -- Alarms and responses -- "Delineation" and restoration, 1942-1943 -- The habeas corpus cases : internment on trial -- New habeas cases : the provost courts on trial -- Rising protests -- The termination of martial law -- The Duncan and White cases -- War's aftermath and the courts.