June 5, 1941

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## Japan Getting Steel Needed for Defense, Congress Told

Iowa Senator Introduces Letter From New York Describing Assumed Activity of Manila Concern

WASHINGTON, June 4. (AP—
Senator Gillette (D.) la. has
submitted to Congress a letter
from a New York communicant
declaring that "while there is a
dearth of steel for American de-
fense purposes, an American cor-
poration is supplying steel to
Japan."

In inserting the letter, signed
Hyacinthe Ringrose, into the
Congressional Record,
Gillette said that the Office of Production
Management recently had sought
a 20 per cent reduction in domes-
tic steel consumption in the in-
terest of national defense.

The letter said that "the United
States Steel Export Co. of 30
Church St. New York City, has
for some time past been conduct-
ing an office in Manila, Philip-

pine Islands, for the purpose of
selling steel to the Japanese gov-
ernment.

"You may call upon me to
prove the foregoing statements,
I am not supplying you with in-
formation and then running
sway from it. I am ready to
back up my statements, under
oath and in public."

When I was in Japan, in 1921, a Japanese told me that in ten
years they would do the following

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Taken from the "Secret Memorial" by Premier Tanaka (1927)

Japan has denied, of course, the authenticity
of this document but up to the present time
"her actions speak louder than words."

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1. For settling difficulties in Eastern Asia, Japan must adopt a policy of "Blood and Iron"

2. In order to conquer Asia, Japan must conquer China, and in order to conquer China, Japan must first conquer Manchuria and Mongolia; Japan expects to fulfill the above programme in ten years.

3. Japan regrets that she has signed the Nine-Power Treaty which was intended by England and America to crush her interests in Manchuria, for thereby she agrees that Manchuria and Mongolia are Chinese territory. This has greatly hampered the freedom of Japanese policy in Manchuria.

4. Japan believes wars in the near future with U. S. A. and Russia are inevitable, so in order to get militarily prepared, Japan must build the Kirin-Hweining and Changchun-Talai railways in Manchuria.

5. The South Manchuria Railway acts in Manchuria as the Governor-General in Korea. In order to blind the eyes of the world and forestall the disclosure of secrets at present, the Colonial office nominally controls affairs of Formosa, Korea, and Saghalian Islands only, while really it manages the affairs of Manchuria.

6. Japan must take strong steps on the basis of the twenty-one demands, to secure priority for building railroads, right of timbering, and exploiting nineteen iron and coal mines in Fentien.

7. Japan should spend yen 1,000,000 from "Secret Funds" of the Army department in order to send 400 retired officers disguised as teachers and traders, scientists, and Chinese citizens to Mongolia to influence the Mongolian princes to revolt against China.

8. Koreans should be utilized by Japan as vanguard for colonization, and as spearhead for penetration into Manchuria and Mongolia.

9. Taking advantage of the local disorder in Fengtien, Japan should manipulate the situation so that the Fengtien Bank notes will depreciate to zero, and the yen will take its place.

10. Japan must enjoy monopoly of supplies of beans, bean cakes, timber, coal, iron, fur, wool, and all other products of Manchuria and Mongolia, and perfect control of transportation so that Chinese influence would be wiped out, and Europe and America, when in need of these supplies, would be at the mercy of Japan.

JULIA ELLSWORTH FORD

31 FREMONT PLACE
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
TEL: WHITNEY 7780

June 6th, 1942

My dear John Haynes Holmes,

John Moore and I have both received your letters. We had luncheon with Dr. John Lechner the Director of the Americanism Educational League who has a great deal of authoritative data on the subject of the Japanese activities in California and Hawaii.

I can see your point of view deduced from what you understand and the information you get. But what John Moore (who is interested in this subject, too,) and I do not understand is your application of the expression "racial hatred" to me because I like the Chinese, and your statement that "we have no proof or evidence of Japanese treachery here or in Honolulu." Your letter showed me the need to write another article, or rather to add to mine.

In the first place, you must see that this feudal, militaristic government, ruled by a man as God, worshipping idols, with customs such as

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Hara-Kiri, has got to go if we want
peace.

In the second place, they
ought not to be allowed to return to
California because they control 82%
of our land and nurseries, and be-
cause they work nights and Sundays
they sell cheaper. Our Americans
couldn't and wouldn't do this. They
outsell Americans in the same field.

I have been buying flowers
for eight years from a Japanese woman,
and tried to help her stay, but she
was an alien. She rented her shop to
an American couple on condition that
after the war she will return, and the
Americans will have to go. This Amer-
ian told me that in the nursery where
he bought the flowers the man had had
to leave suddenly. He had been invest-
igated and found to be a naval officer
and spy. In another nursery when the
man was arrested they found bomb mater-
ials to set fire to the neighboring
places.

These stories and also those
I told in my pamphlet are all authentic,
but they never get to the East, and
there people are perfectly ignorant of
these facts. I am having a copy of
"China" sent to you. You cannot doubt
the truth of what such men as Julean
Arnold, K.C.Li and Dr.HuShi say,
although you seem to doubt me.

JULIA ELLSWORTH FORD

TEL: WHITNEY 7780

June 27th, 1942

My dear Mr. Crow,

Thank you for your letter,
and I do feel, as you do, that the
military party of Japan is bringing
disaster on their country. And, any-
way, feudal nations have to go.

You say they will menace
no one for several hundred years-
probably not with guns! They are
subtle, deceitful and treacherous,
and have determined to get back to
California. I am very much distressed
about this. I am looking up all the
nurseries and farms, and find new
treacheries every day. A Japanese
Physician here has just been arrested
as a spy-- he was a Naval Officer.
That is the third Naval Officer we
have arrested.

But the menace to us will
be when the war is over. They will
demonstrate their rights as American
citizens to return, and they are

JULIA ELLSWORTH FORD

31 FREMONT PLACE

LOS ANGELES, CALIF.

TEL: WHITNEY 7780

July 2nd, 1942

Mr. Chester Rowell
Editor
San Francisco Chronicle.

My dear Chester Rowell,

In answer to your article in which you refer to my attitude in suggesting the definite evacuation of the Japanese American-born as well as aliens, you state that you are not in sympathy with it. And the main reason you find in the necessity it involves of altering the Constitution and the State Laws.

I have two reasons for my stand. First, the parents of the American-Japanese are still under the dominion of their home country, and their family allegiance being so strong, the children are naturally held to it, whether born here or not. No doubt there are many loyal Japanese Americans. In fact I once paid for a blood transfusion for one of them, and would do so all over again.

There is no hatred on my part for them. But indeed it is difficult to discriminate between those who have been treacherous, and those who have not.

And what about those 3,000 fishermen? Look at Brazil! They don't know what to do the 350,000 Japanese there, and despair of coping with the rampant treachery there.

It is a law of our country, you state, that allows an American citizen to return to his property. Is the Constitution made for our people? Or are we made for it? If it upholds a law that forces us to accept people who plot for control of our land, then we should promptly amend that law, and it should not be difficult to get all the states involved to accept such an amendment. I think we have a right to demand a change of this kind in the Constitution.

You also say we need them. Why do we need them? They live below the American standard of living, and by their example they force others to live below our standard. They have never fitted into our ways of living. They have never belonged to the American Federation of Labor, or any

JULIA ELLSWORTH FORD

31 FREMONT PLACE
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
TEL: WHITNEY 7760

July 8th, 1942

Mr. Eldred L. Meyer,
Past Grand President N.S.G.W.
833 Rowan Building
Los Angeles.

My dear Mr. Meyer,

I received your letter and have sent you a copy of the Tanaka Memorial, and also one to Mr. Odemar as you suggested. I am also sending you some additional copies of the pamphlet. Do you know Carl Crow's book

JAPAN'S DREAM OF WORLD EMPIRE:
THE TANAKA MEMORIAL.

It's very good.

I first heard of The Native Sons of the Golden West from an article in the Times by Mr. Holden. He unfortunately classed the Chinese and Japanese together as Orientals who should not be allowed here. But in view of all that China is doing to help save

America now when we sat fiddling
and watched her being destroyed as
Nero watched Rome burn,- it was a
serious error. When I drew Mr.
Holden's attention to this fact he
acknowledged he had made a mistake
in using the expression. When
you consider what intelligent, int-
eresting, fine citizens they make,
we should not lump them with the
Japanese and say that Orientals
should not be allowed to enter the
country.

The time has come when we
should allow more Chinese in the
country. If we had Chinese labor
now that the Japanese are evacuated
instead of Mexicans, we would have
good citizens. It's time we stopped
classifying these two- the Chinese
and the Japanese together when the
Chinese have such people as Hu Shi
Soong, the Chiang, the Prince der
Ling, Mr. Chang who is lecturing here,
and many more I could name.

I shall be happy to meet
you and discuss the question further
some time in the near future. I shall
be returning East in about two weeks,
but in the meantime perhaps you will
call me and make an appointment.

Sincerely,

Oswald Garrison Villard
Thomaston
Conn.

July 10, 1942

Dear Mrs. Ford:

I am very much saddened by your pamphlet on the Japanese. For the first time we are completely at opposite poles and do not speak the same language. I am afraid that there is no use of arguing about it, but I would point out to you that the chief of police of Hawaii has officially stated that not a single instance of Japanese sabotage took place during the Pearl Harbor attack, or of treachery, and that this statement has never been contradicted by any official of the United States Government. If sabotage did occur our government is certainly very culpable in not having spread it abroad at once.

As for the officer's wife's story about the banquet to 300 naval officers, how did they get home if the Japanese stole the batteries out of their cars? And what peculiar kind of dope is that which affects only people's legs? Or was it perhaps the brand of whiskey that they took? I believe that if anything like this had happened it would have been commented upon in the official report of the Roberts Commission which I have twice read with the greatest care. Finally, the chairman of the Los Angeles Civil Liberties Union reports that he has been unable to run down any authentic case of sabotage by a Japanese born in America, or of disloyalty. Whether he is right or wrong, there is no excuse for the government's having permitted the military to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens. Both bad and good American citizens are entitled to their rights, and your plan to prevent the return of the Japanese to the coast would be

JULIA ELLSWORTH FORD

31 FREMONT PLACE
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
TEL. WHITNEY 7780

July 3rd, 1942

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The Editors
Life Magazine
Rockefeller Center
New York, N.Y.

Gentlemen:

My congratulations!
One of the best articles I have
seen on China and the United Nations
is in your issue of June 29th:
*Farmer Chen* (Life on Newsfronts of
the World)

Having lived in China and
Japan and studied this situation
carefully, being a friend of Carl
Crow's and Julean Arnold's, and
being one of the first to circulate
the Tanaka Memorial, I am ashamed
of our country's ineptitude, and of
the stupidity which is often worse
than crime.

We let China burn, as
Nero let Rome burn. We let Japan
try to ruin China when we could have
prevented this war. Have I not seen

LIFE
TIME & LIFE BUILDING
ROCHEFELLER CENTER
NEW YORK

Mrs. Julia Ellsworth Ford
31 Fremont Place
Los Angeles, California

Dear Mrs. Ford:

We were delighted to hear from you,
and must ask you to accept our most thoroughgoing
apologies for so belated a reply to your letter.
However, we are working under a great deal of pres-
sure these days, and so we cannot always give our
correspondence the prompt attention it deserves.

We are all very glad to know that you
found our June 29th Newsfronts discussion so excellent,
and it is especially gratifying that you are in such
hearty accord with the points we made. We found your
pamphlets on the subject most interesting, but unfortu-
nately there is no way we can make use of them in LIFE.

As you no doubt know, we never reprint
material that has already been published elsewhere or
in another form. The signed articles which appear in
LIFE are prepared either by members of our own staff
or by experts in various fields, especially commissioned
by us. I'm therefore returning the material to you
under separate cover -- many thanks for thinking of
LIFE, nevertheless!

Sincerely yours,

Mrs. Julia Ellsworth Ford
31 Fremont Place
Los Angeles, Cal.

P. S. We certainly do recognize you as the mother
of Lauren Ford -- her work is so delightful!

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Japanese. As long as the Japanese in America- and this includes those Japanese who by accident of birth have become American citizens, but have not in fact ceased to be subjects of Japan- may be used by the military clique of their mother country as tools of aggression and sabotage, I am for the exclusion of the Japanese, en masse. That they have so been used in the past, and given favorable conditions, will so be used again in the future, is no longer open to question, regardless of the fact that there are no doubt a few Japanese Americans, and perhaps some non-citizen Japanese who would prefer to be loyal to us. When- if ever- the Japanese people are freed from the stranglehold of their militarists, and their idiocy as a nation becomes democratized, my objections to their settlement here will be automatically cancelled out.

2. Again you emphasize that, up to early summer, there has been no evidence of Japanese sabotage here or in Hawaii.

Regarding this, I refer you to my Supplement, to which I might add, that long before my pamphlet appeared in June, there had accumulated a mass of undоказable evidence to the contrary, evidence, which the uninformed, white-washing, wishy-washy Tolan and other committees found it expedient to ignore.

3. The removal of the Japanese from California was inspired by economic considerations- not by military exigency.

This implies a misapprehension of the motives of our military authorities which I am sure you did not intend. There is not the slightest question that the Japanese were excluded, at the cost of an extremely serious disruption of our state-wide economy, because it was an imperative military necessity for the safety of the West Coast, and consequently of our country as a whole.

But apart from and beyond that crucial point, it is quite true that the economic factor has always played a great part, and is bound to play an even greater post-bellum part in our domestic Japanese problem. In this connection I refer you again to my Supplement. I cannot believe that you are in favor of our people voluntarily reducing their standard of living to those of slaves, by re-inviting Japanese competition into our midst.

Now that I have got these thoughts off my chest, I want you to know that these intellectual disagreements between us, do not in any way lessen my high regard and affection for you.

Faithfully, as ever,

OFFICE OF
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
WYNTOON
McCLOUD, CALIFORNIA

July 3, 1942

Mrs. Julia Ellsworth
31 Fremont Place,
Los Angeles, California

Dear Mrs. Ford :

Mr.
your booklet, "Someth
good enough to send t

Let not sentiment and our congenital disinclination to believe
what to us seems the unbelievable, lull us into purry-footing a prob-
lem of the most vital consequence to the people of America. We are
all agreed—including my doubting correspondents—that for us this
war will not be over until Germany and Japan are whipped into
complete submission. Do my correspondents believe it will be wise
for us to have in our midst the sullen satellites of a race whose deep-
rooted military tradition it is, never to forgive an enemy, particu-
larly one by whom it had been beaten?

The instances of Japanese treachery, quoted in my pamphlet,
have been carefully checked. The story of the Honolulu banquet
given to three hundred officers and their wives, was related by the
wife of a high naval officer. She is a fine woman and too intelligent
to fool around with hearsay. The Japanese stole the batteries out of
the cars of our Pearl Harbor officers, not before they got home, but
afterwards, so that they could not reach their stations in time on the
morning of the attack, and they made doubly sure that the officers
would be incapacitated by doping them during the banquet. This
has since been confirmed by scores of eye-witnesses of the Pearl Harbor
disaster, and I shall be glad to supply further information on this
subject to anyone requesting it.

A friend of my own trusted house manager, who has often expressed his friendship for many Japanese Americans, reported that a highly respected Japanese physician in Los Angeles, with a practice of years' standing, had been convicted of being head of Japanese espionage in Los Angeles. This physician had lived here for more than twenty-five years and had received on several occasions official marks of appreciation for his contribution to public welfare.

I have personally checked at two former Japanese nurseries of
which I have been a patron for seven years, and found that in one,
incendiary bombs had been hidden in a secret basement, and in the
other, children had found similar bombs in the grounds where they
were playing.

Chester Rowell and others insist that we allow the Japanese to return to California after the war. Do they not know that alien Japanese, whose children are born in America, owe allegiance directly to their Emperor, and that it is obligatory on them to report to him the birth of every child? The strong and austere family, racial and national ties of the Japanese people are responsible for the profound, compelling influence Japanese parents exert upon their children.

Shall we, in the face of this incontestable fact, invite an intensified
Japanese problem back into our midst after the war?

The chairman of the Los Angeles Civil Liberties Union has had
his eyes opened recently on the Japanese question, according to infor-
mation given me personally by Dr. Lechner, Director of the Ameri-
canism Educational League.

As to our Government having permitted the military to violate
the rights of American citizens. I refer the reader to an article in
Harper's for June, where this question is fully and ably handled.
Lincoln himself had to suspend some rights in the days of the Civil
War.

We are at war with Japan—a people whose idiocy is utterly
foreign to us—and to me it seemed a matter of mere common sense
and imperative necessity for the ultimate salvation of our people, to
speak out boldly on this crucial subject.

The fact that one is forced to take a positive stand on the Japanese question, does not necessarily involve the issue of race prejudice. The very idea of racial hatred is so abhorrent to me, that even though the Japanese have cruelly wronged and betrayed us, I hope peace will be reestablished between the United States and Japan, before the necessity arises of devastating their beautiful country, and killing their women and children.

A LETTER THAT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF

Honolulu, June 23rd, 1942.

To the Sino-Korean People's League
101 D Street
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Haan:

If you would do a real service to your countrymen and our cause,
you would perhaps employ your time convincing influential persons
in Washington of the gravity of the internal Japanese situation in
Hawaii today. You are fully aware of it. Despite the flood of news
and comments from Washington about the evacuation of thousands
of Japanese from the Pacific Coast area, little or nothing has been
said about a vigorous move on similar lines with regard to Hawaii.
Our problem, which is ten times more grave, is virtually ignored.
It is entirely in the hands of authorities who, if they have a solution,
have not chosen to make it public and allay a growing fear in those
Islands.

—AMERICAN NEWS-COLUMNIST.

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OFFICE OF
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
WYNTON
MCCLOUD, CALIFORNIA

July 3, 1942

Dear Mrs. Ford :

NOTE: The Sino-Korean People's League was praised by Cordell Hull. He called it one of our most dependable sources of information.

MISCELLANY

Frank Knox, our Secretary of the Navy, upon his return from Hawaii soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, stated that the largest fifth column in the world was present out there.

How dependable is the report to the contrary of the Honolulu Chief of Police. The majority of voters in Hawaii are of Japanese extraction and command political appointments to this day. Reports of Hawaiian officials are to be read with this appalling fact in mind.

Who is behind Sam King, Hawaiian Representative in Congress? What influence has the Sugar Plantations Owners Association in the local Hawaiian politics? (See *The Nation*, July 25, 1942, "Hawaii's 150,000 Japanese.") Why should we accept the questionable report of the incompetent and biased Tolan Committee, rather than the testimony of reliable eye-witnesses?

Our Intelligence Service never discloses its reactions to the information it receives. One of its main policies is to be silent. Therein lies its strength. It has not made reports for the public about the Japanese situation on the West Coast. But the fact that the Army ordered the greatest mass evacuation in our history indicates that the Army moved upon evidence it had on this matter. Our Government found it advisable not to spread abroad news about sabotage, etc., but to act swiftly and silently.

Of what date is the report of the chairman of the Los Angeles Civil Liberties Union about running down any authentic cases of sabotage?

A friend of ours, Miss Alice Miles, Director of a commercial school in the Arcade Building, Santa Barbara, had a Japanese girl as a pupil, a fine and lovable one. This girl committed suicide because her father, who had had a butler for years in one of the wealthy families of the town, was caught in espionage for the Japanese Navy of which he was a reserve officer. He was convicted as head of a local Japanese fifth column, and committed suicide in the Los Angeles jail.

It is a matter of common knowledge in Santa Barbara that the night the Japanese submarine shelled the Coast a few miles north of the town, many mysterious lights were observed signalling from the hills.

Do we wish 82% of the Los Angeles County farmland to be returned to the Japanese?

Do we want 40% of the truck farms of the State to be returned to them?

Do we want three thousand Japanese, discovered by the United States to be fifth columnists and spies disguised as fishermen, brought back to our Coast?

I agree fully that some of our actions towards American citizens of Japanese extraction are unconstitutional, but we are unfortunately at war, and of two evils we had to choose the lesser one. Between infringing our Constitution or jeopardizing the safety of our whole West Coast at a very critical moment, WE HAD NO OTHER CHOICE.

If the Japanese had come to the United States free of Emperor allegiance, in search of a better life—as did the millions of immigrants from other lands—they would find welcome here after the war, as the Germans did after the last war. But the record of the Japanese in our country, and everywhere else they have settled, has been one of selfish non-cooperation, secretiveness and sabotage.

EXCERPTS FROM LETTERS

From Carl Crow, June 16, 1942:

"... It appears that after years of studied deceit in which every Japanese participated, the Japanese are now beginning to get the fate they deserve. I feel sure that as a result of the war they will be reduced to a semi-agricultural nation, and will menace no one for several hundred years."

From Julean Arnold, June 26, 1942:

"With the Japanese we have had the wool pulled over our eyes because we have been entirely too apathetic in our ignorance of what they were up to."

From Eldred E. Mayer, Past Grand President, Native Sons of the Golden West, July 3, 1942:

"... Their (Japanese) disloyalty is evident on every side, and the mere fact that they are unassimilable should be proof enough that they belong in the Orient, and not upon the soil of California."

From the Honorable Sheridan Downey, United States Senate, Committee on Military Affairs, July 10, 1942:

"... I have read your pamphlet with a great deal of interest, and I believe it to be a contribution in bringing attention to the

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OFFICE OF
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
WYNToon
McCLOUD, CALIFORNIA

July 3, 1942

Dear Mrs. Ford :

Mr.
your booklet, "Some
good enough to send t

dangerous Japanese problem that existed so many years on the West Coast."

From Culbert L. Olson, Governor of California, July 31, 1942:

"Your views on the international situation and on the activities of the Japanese are most thought-provoking, and should be widely read and considered."

COMMENTS ON PEARL BUCK'S
"AMERICAN UNITY AND ASIA"

Pearl Buck has written a most timely book, "American Unity and Asia," which praises eloquently freedom and democracy. I am in full agreement with the spirit that prompts her book, but because I have spent two years in China and Japan, and during the last ten years six months of each year in California, and have an intimate acquaintance with the Japanese situation on the West Coast, I beg to differ in two essential points with her appraisal of the Japanese, and the problem of the Japanese Americans. I never have been prejudiced against the Japanese. In fact I made friends with many of them in their nurseries, until I discovered what their ultimate aim was.

First point. Pearl Buck says, "The Japanese are temperamentally able and creative. They are not imitative. . . . They are a people who equal any in creative genius." However, the only specific evidence she gives us is the great beauty of their surroundings "that has been in a measure the outgrowth of their minds and their civilization." She remarks that "they have tended their country as they tend a garden." How can their creative genius be compared with that of Persia, India or China? Japan's language and art are taken from the Chinese; their poetry, while very fine, is not as great as that of China. In fact, it is difficult to recall any very great genius of Japan; whereas in China, India and Persia, for example, they stand out in vivid contrast and in numbers. The Japanese adaptability, which has no match anywhere in the world, is perhaps the core of whatever genius they have, especially when it deals with the means of satisfying their mania for dominating other people.

Pearl Buck speaks of "a very deep fault in Japanese civilization, a result of a lack of democracy." She calls it "the sin of the Japanese people." How true! And why is it that Japan has been more successful than any other race, and for the longest time, in militarizing all her people? Their genius lies in outdoing us in military affairs.

but is that to their credit? The irony of it is that we have so largely contributed to their success, believing them to be a trustworthy nation. It is a mystery to me how the Japanese can be so gentle in their homes, and at the same time commit such cold-blooded atrocities in China, and recently in the International Settlement in Hong-Kong, in Shanghai, in the Philippines and elsewhere.

The second point on which I take issue with Pearl Buck has to do with her interpretation of the position of the Japanese-Americans. She says, "they are here because they do not want to go back to Japan. They do not believe in what Japan is." Of course that must be true of some of them. But of how many? How can she know if that is true of the bulk of the 117,000 (approximately) who have been evacuated? (See article by Albert Horlings, "Hawaii's 150,000 Japanese," in *The Nation*, July 25, 1942.) The brutal fact is that apart from the hidden purpose of their presence here, the mass of them do not want to go back for economic reasons. They make more money here. Besides, by their determination and cleverness, they have outwitted every other nationality in our population, always getting the best of what they were after. Americans cannot compete with a race of people who work like slaves, day and night. Sundays and holidays; especially when they have the ultimate ambition of controlling the soil of California. Or are my correspondents in favor of a greatly lowered standard of living for the American workman and farmer?

The assumption that the Japanese do not want to go back to their mother country because they do not believe in the policy of Japan, and prefer the democracy of our country, calls for an array of evidence which to this day has been lacking. Is there not a great danger of our paying a terrible price if we base our attitude towards the Japanese in America on such wishful thinking?

We may come closer to the truth if we take into consideration the vital fact that no Japanese is a free agent—in the sense in which an American is—and that they have to carry out blindly, whether they like them or not, the dictates of the ruthless rulers of Japan.

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Is it not time to stop using the word "Oriental," and ignorantly lumping together all races of Asia under that simple term? From now on we ought to name separately every race and nation of Asia as we do those of Europe. Misunderstandings, injustices, and blunders

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OFFICE OF
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
WYNGTOON
MCCLOUD, CALIFORNIA

July 3, 1942

Dear Mrs. Ford :

will thus be avoided at this most critical time in our relations with
the people of the East.

If China had come to terms with Japan, it would have spelled
the end of us. Instead, China has been one of the greatest factors
in our own salvation. Throughout her life China has fought down
the militaristic spirit, while Japan's history is an unbroken record
of arrogant militarism.

Just as vital as it is to keep the Japanese out of America perma-
nently, we cannot any longer put up a barrier in our minds against
desirable Chinese settling in the United States. Should we fail in
this moral obligation, we would be a very ungrateful people indeed.

AFTER THE WAR—WHAT?

What outlook have we for a decent peace in this terrible Arma-
geddon? I refer again to Norman Angell's summing up of man's rise
to a better society, quoted in my pamphlet: First came the slave state,
man selling his fellow men. Then came feudalism, the feudal lord
could command his men to fight for him. The individual lord can-
not do this now, but the state can. It is only a matter of time until
state possession will give way to something better—maybe DEMO-
CRATIC SOCIALISM.

Corliss Lamont has written a very illuminating and practical
book. "You Might Like Socialism." He gives this excellent exposi-
tion of the meaning of Socialist planning on an international plan:

"Socialist planning means the conscious, purposeful, non-auto-
matic, unceasing function of a great community mind on behalf of
the common good. . . . Socialist planning can never be considered
complete until, with the United States and all other nations closely
co-operating, it goes into effect on an international scale as the basic
foundation of that great and peaceful world society which, long an
ideal in the minds of statesmen, has become an acute necessity of
our age." To which I would add, that *the time for such planning
is now*.

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3I. Fremont Place
Los Angeles

My dear John,

I was glad to get your last letter.
But you are rather startling...You make two
points.

I. There was no treachery up to early
dummer.

II. The removal of the Japanese from California was inspired by economic jealousy and competition, the military reason was only a sham and a pretext.

I point: My pamphlet finished in June was worked at long before and proofs we had long before. As I said the people in the East have no comprehension and base their ideas on some so-Cal-IIEX led official report.

Mind you, the Government was not lying out
more information than it could help at that time,
and that is why the people were fooled about con-
ditions both here and in Hawaii.

On this matter of Japanese settlements in America, do you expect our people to work like slaves, for that is the way they would have to work to make a bare living in competition with them. It would be a hopeless situation.

II point: For you to think our Government and our people removed the Japanese for solely economic reason, and that the military was only a pretext to bemove acute competition, an appalling. You seem to be more suspicious of our Government than you are of the Japanese. our Military has every reason to do this and should have long ago. The Japanese fishermen here have been found with enough evidence to prove that they were lined up to act with their Navy at the right moment.

As for your reproach that I am moved by racial prejudice, I resent it.. I have paid for blood transfusion for one family last year and have always kept the most sympathetic relations with the Japanese families of the several nurseries I have known for years.

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JULIA ELLSWORTH FORD

TEL: WHITNEY 7780

January 25th, 1943

Miller Freeman(Publications)
71 Columbia Street
Seattle, Wash.

My dear Mr. Freeman,

I have just received the
copy of the letter you sent me
written to the Washington State
Legislature. I think your idea
is perfectly splendid-- put it up
to them to investigate. As you
say this "would put a stop to all
loose, unfounded statements of
extremists" and would be a "valuable
guide toward finding the correct
policy our people should adopt for
the future handling of this question"
Besides the time is now, before any
other plan can be raised for them.

If you don't know Dr. John
Lechner, the executive Director of the
Americanism Educational League, I
think it would be well for you two
to keep in constant touch with each
other. If I were younger and

DOBBS FERRY BANK

FRANKLIN O. BROWN, PRESIDENT

DAVID R. RAVEKES, VICE-PRESIDENT

S. M. CRAIGER, 2ND. VICE-PRESIDENT

RICHARD J. HAUG, ASST. CASHIER

DOBBS FERRY, N.Y.

Jan. 6, 1944.

My dear Mrs. Ford:

I hope that you will pardon my delay in writing to thank you for the most interesting pamphlets given me at the China Society luncheon at the Waldorf. You have performed a great public service in bringing out the facts as to Japan's infamous attack at Pearl Harbor. It is a sorry record of treachery and disloyalty.

It seems to me that Americans should consider seriously everything you said in "SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT," and the "SUPPLEMENT." In particular the people of California have a great responsibility as to future policy. While there are some loyal Japanese Americans, — and they are even fighting in our armed forces, it appears to me that the question of the future of alien labor in the West is one that calls for the most thoughtful study. How can we contemplate the return of the great mass of Japanese to the farms and villages of California as workers on the land? A righteous settlement of the issues growing out of the War calls for a different solution.

Even the possibility of bringing in some laborers from Mexico raises a difficult question. This is something we are faced with in the East, as the papers report the arrival here of some workers from our southern neighbor to labor on the railroads. While I concede that a shortage of men in our own country may make this necessary as a temporary measure, it strikes me that our aim should be to try and recruit Americans. If we do this on a thorough-going basis, one aspect of our employment problem will be solved, and we shall avoid a future difficulty.

You must be enjoying a pleasant vacation in the sunshine of the glorious West. I hope that you are well and that we may have the pleasure of welcoming you back in Westchester in the Spring. With every good wish,

Mrs. Julia Ellsworth Ford,
31 Fremont Place,
Los Angeles, Calif.
BFD

Very sincerely yours,