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Letter from Dillon S. Myer, Director, War Relocation Authority, to Martin Dies, Chairman, Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities, June 2, 1943

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Title: Letter from Dillon S. Myer, Director, War Relocation Authority, to Martin Dies, Chairman, Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities, June 2, 1943
Creator: Myer, Dillon S. (Dillon Seymour), 1891-1982: author
Date Created and/or Issued: 1943-06-02
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Honnold Mudd Library Special Collections at http://libraries.claremont.edu/sc
Description: Letter in response to statements made in the press about pro-Japanese sentiments from Japanese people before the war and the quality of food in the incarceration camps compared to the rest of the nation.
The collection contains material used by Carey McWilliams in writing the book, Prejudice: Japanese Americans, symbol of racial intolerance (Little, Brown, 1944). It includes U.S. War Relocation Authority records, confidential reports, bibliographies, clippings and compilations of articles, legal papers, correspondence between McWilliams and Japanese American evacuees, relocation camp newspapers and other publications, two copies of his book, and five copies of the 1994 videocassette (40 min.), Something Strong Within.
Type: text
Format: Correspondence
2 pages, typescript, 11 x 8.5 inches
application/pdf
Identifier: tccl_jai00215
tccl_wra_00215
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/27211
Language: English
Subject: World War II--Propaganda--Media propaganda
World War II--Pearl Harbor and aftermath
World War II--Incarceration camps--Food
Espionage
Place: Washington D.C.
Incarceration Camps--Manzanar
Source: Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library
Relation: California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3b69q445
War Relocation Authority Records

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