Detroit evening times., 1945-03-15

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NIT any act" in any military
area. under penalty Of $1,000
fine and one year IN prison for
each -offensc.
Obviously, any person must
commit many acts every day.
Each breath he draws is IAN
act. Thus. each defendant SO
excluded, could be fined the
total value of his property, as
Hitler fined the Jews into
destitution, and condemned 10
prison for the rest OF his life.
THE Supreme Court upheld
i korcmatsu's conviction.
Hugo Black wrote the majority
opinion.
When the New Deal waS
very young. Black prowled the
private telegraphic correspond.
encc Of countless American
citizens indi scrim mate ly.
searching for information OF
political value 20 his political
boss. At that time. he was
member of the Senate and was
Concealing his own membership
in a murderous. but by then,
outmoded gang of night riding
religious and racial terrorlstS.
He had Joined this mob for the
most contemplate motive. TO
win votes for his election 10 a
cheap political Job as county
prosecutor IN Alabama.
He was an adult man at the
time of this election and the of
firr- wt1ICh fe- thus won was the
first step in his advancement TO
the L. s. Senate and the Su-
preme Court When. years later.
he was caught by a reporter in
the act of membership in an
organization which now had be-
come a handicap. he confessed
that he had not been sincere
even 20 ms fellow gangsters He
had Joined them only 10 win
support which more conscien-
tiOuS American should have
Spurncd on any terms. and had
Swindlcd the night-riding, Jew
batting Alabama Negro-beaters
OF their votes,
II HIS majority opinion. Black
L wrote that where the proper
military authorities are appre-
hcnSiyc Of the graveSt imminent
danger. native Americans may
be- excluded from their home
neiEhborhoodS, If they be Of
certain ancestry.
lie had the effrontery 10 say
for the Supreme Court that
kOrematSu was deportcd 10 2
concentration camp. not becau'
Of hostility 10 his race but be-
cause the proper military au-
thoritieS had decide q that
military urgency demanded
that all citizens Of japanese
ancestry be segregated from the
Pacific Coast temporarily.
incidentally, 4 mporarily'
has meant for life in the cases
OF some who have died in in
ternment camps. Tn thousands
of other eases it has meant
three years Of Imprisonment
and the sacrifice OF their homes,
business interests and property,
10 say nothing Of their rights as
loyal, native citizens.
We finally pin Black down 10
the dictum that any private SOL
der, deriving authority from
the secretary Of war, whatever
his politics, may become a
proper authority TO decree that
native Americans of unchal-
lenged loyalty may be thrown
into mass camps because the
United States happens TO be at
war with the country of their
ancestors.
1t is a formidable PROPOSE
ton.
At PRESENT, we are at war
"A with Germany and thus
with Austria. Only by political
accidents and accidents 10 Hit
Ter at that. do we find ourselves
now on the side of Russia. Ro-
mania and Bulgaria and not
against them. Millions Of good
Americans whose ancestors
came from the white enemy
countries are exposed by Black
and the majority 10 confisca-
tion and Imprisonment for life.
Oddly, Felix Frankfurter,
himself an immigrant from an
enemy country, Austria, con-
Cured with the majority, but
in separate opinion VIII I
reasoning, if any, eludes me.
l believe IT would have been
more 10 the interest of TIN
United States TO snatch Fraru,
furter from the bench and lock-
him up, than 10 intern a thou-
sand KorematSus in the Ari-
zona desert. -
/ would defend the proposition
that Frankfurtcr and his ideo-
logical companions are more
dangerous TO us than all the
Korematsusa
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