The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-01-14
Legion Post at
Hood River Denies
japs Citizenship
Urges deportation of all
and calls for complete
separation

HOOD RlVer POSC NO ~ the amer.
can Legion, Department of Oregon
has through its commander, G.. r
Frey, sent the following resolution
to all posts on the Pacific coast:
Mr.. Commandment and Comrades
Attached resolutions were passed al
a regular meeting of the post Mon.
day, Jan. 4. We urge your earnest
attention and prompt action. '.'f$
Resolution No l. n.y.
Whereas our country is at wa1
with japan, and
Whereas at the outset of this wal
it became necessary to remove all
persons of japanese ancestry from
this county, and z.<
Whereas it has been demonstrated
that persons of japanese ancestry
are unassimable with the citizens
of our nation and they therefore
constitute a permanent alien ele-
ment in any community in which
they may be located, and
whereas for these reasons and for
many Others, reliance is placed on
the adoption Of appropriate national
laws providing for the removal of
all persons of japanese ancestry
from the continental United States
and the refusal of citizenship in the
United States to them.
Now, therefore, be it ~
T Resolved that Hood River Post
No. % of the American Legion, De-
partment of Oregon, go on record
against the return of any person of
japanese ancestry to this county for
the purpose of continuing residence
here; and that it give wide publicity
so that such persons may be in
formed and that this action may
promote the adoption of legislation
locally. and nationally as may be
required; and be it further 1T, 49,.
Resolved that each member of
this post pledge himself individually
to support this action in every
reasonable way to the end that it
may be strictly enforced. ia . L,
Resolution No. q
i. It is our settled conviction that
no person of japanese ancestry are
desirable as American citizens as all
such are l1nassirnilab1e to our stand
ards of living, our process of
thought, our unity of allegiance,
and therefore, it should be declared
to be permanent policy Of this coun-
try to bar them from citizenship.
. 2. All persons of japanese ancestry
now residing in this country should
be deported to japan at the earliest
opportunity and thus prevent the
further insidious infiltration through
the accident of birth of a race whose
purpose is to possess, dominate and
destroy.
8. The Constitution of the United
States should be amended, so. as to
limit citizenship because of birth in
the United States, to those who
are born here to parents who are
citizens of the United States.
4. As to those japanese who now
claim full citizenship under the
Fourteenth Amendment because
they were born here, we deny such
claim, and assert and declare that
our Constitution may not be so con-
structed as to confer citizenship up
on a child born here to parents who
were neither citizens nor eligible of
becoming citizens, and which child
does not and will not become subject
to the sole and exclusive jurisdic-
ton of the United States because
of the now well-known dual-citizen-
ship status of every American-born
japanese.
We, therefore, promise full sup
port and encouragement to all such
governmental proceedings of any
and every character as shall be
appropriate or, necessary to deprive
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