The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-03-16
Legion Asks Bar
To Citizenship Of
All iaps
Resolution calls for
deportation and per-
manent disbarment

Cdu Legion post Is tOnlSnt passing
couple of drastic resolutions
regarding the japs. The action
was taken at the last regular meet.
ing and the drafting of the actual
resolutions was left to a COM
mittee who will submit the fol-
lowing to the meeting tonight.
The resolutions recite that the
japanese are unassimilable with
our race and should not be allowed
to remain in this country, and
each Legion member is pledged to
do everything reasonable to see
that the resolution is strictly en-
forced. "
The second resolution calls for
a Constitutional amendment to
provide that the mere accident
of birth will not be a basis for
citizenship-that parentage alone
will be the basis. If the parents
are eligible to citizenship and
have made full requirements, then
the children may become citizens
and entitled to all privileges
otherwise granted.
Following is the full text of
both resolutions:
Whereas our country is at war
with japan, and
Whereas at the outset of this
war it became necessary to re-
move all persons of japanese an
cestry from this county, and
Whereas it has been demonstrat-
ed that persons of japanese an
cestry are unassimilable with the
citizens of our nation, and they
therefore constitute permanent
alien element 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 jap.
anese ancestry from the continen.
tai United States and the refusal
of citizenship in. the United State:
to them.
Now, therefore, be it resolved
that Robt. w. Ely Post No. 33 o,
the American Legion, Kennewick
Washington, 60 on record agains'
the return of any person of Jap.
anese ancestry to this county fol
the purpose of continuing resi-.
dent here; and that it give wide
publicity so that such persons may
be informed and that this action
may promote the adoption of legis.
lation locally and nationally as
may be required; and be it further
Resolved that each member OF
this post pledge himself individu-
ally to support this action in every
reasonable way to the end that
it may be strictly enforced.
Resolution No. z
/. 1t is our settled conviction
that no persons of japanese. an
cestry are desirable as American
citizens as all such are unassimil-
able to our standards of living
our process of thought, our unity
of allegiance, and therefore, il
should be declared to be perman-
ent policy of this country to bar
them from citizenship.
2. All persons of japanese an.
cestry now residing in this country
should be deported to japan a,
the earliest opportunity and thus
prevent the further insidious in
liberation through the accident
of birth of a race whose purpose
is to possess, dominate and de-
stroy.
3. 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 to parents
who are citizens of the United
States.
4. AS to the 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 construed as to confer
citizenship upon a child born here
to parents who were neither citi-
zens nor eligible of becoming
citizens, and which child does not
and will not become subject to the
sole and exclusive jurisdiction of
the United States because of the
now well-known dual-citizenship
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 all American-born jap.
anese of their claimed citizenship
Word has just been received OF
the sudden death of MIR. Meow
an, former resident of the High
lans and well known to many oil