The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-05-18
! COMMENT ON WORLD
! EVENTS

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"All Japanese Americans W h O S e
| records have been carefully examined
| and cleared by the appropriate Fed
| eral investigating agencies should be
permitted to live and work in any state
and city of their choosing in the United
States" said George Marshall, chair
man of the National Federation for
Constitutional Liberties in releasing a
statement clarifying public policy in
the present controversy b out Jap
anese- Americans. This seems state
ment to which any American who be-
lieves in the principles on which this
nation was founded can subscribe.
Marshall pointed out, on behalf of
NFCL that the current objections
made against settlement of the Jap
anese- Americans who have been living
in Federal War RelOcations Centers,
are not based on any question of ma
tiOna safety and are clearly on
grounds of discrimination based on
race, color and national origin.
This is inconsistent with American
democratic traditions and if carried
out would be tantamount to adopting
Hitler's policy of race" he declared.
The National Federation for Consti-
tutional Liberties simultaneously with
release of the statement wrote to Sec
retary Of the Interior Harold Ickes
congratulating him on his firm stand
against discrimination of Japanese
Americans who have been cleared by
the War Relocation Authorities and
given permission to re-enter normal
American life.
Immediately following Pearl Har-
bOr," NFCL pointed out, Japanese
Americans together with Japanese
citizens were moved from the West
Coast and sent to relocation centers
This was done as an emergency meas
use for national defense at time
when invasion of the west coast seem
ed likely and when the facts about
each Japanese-American were not
known.
"Under the circumstance NFCL did
not take issue with this policy which
was adopted as a necessary war emer
gency measure. We cannot permit an
however, to become the
basis for permanent discrimination
against racial minority"
The Swedish "Social-Demokraten''
recently carried picturesque and
very likely authentic story of the eff
cheney of the Danish underground |
press, reported to the Stockholm paper |
by the Danish Press Service.
According to this story, on March |
% all the pillars reserved for bill |
posters i'm Greater Copenhagen were |
covered at noon with posters consist |
ING of the two first sides of the illegal |
newspaper "De Erie Danske" Gree |
Danes). They gave photographs of
bomb damages i'm Berlin, as well as a |
detailed description of the German /
capital from Danish correspondent. |
He had, for a moderate sum, succeed
I'd i'm smuggling himself into Germany
without passport or visa, and in living
here underground precisely as he did
n Denmark.
He reported revolutionary happen
ngs on the German hOmefrOnt in Feb
'uary, such as large and successful
strikes involving 10000 workers who
demanded peace. The movement of
10Th German and foreign workers in
Berlin was increasing in strength and
hey had the slogan Finish by
Caster"
He said that Germans today have
'nly one wish, namely peace at any
rice, and that the workers, in con
rast to their previous attitude, are
low ready to make a personal contri-
'utiOn towards it through strikes and
disturbances.