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Statement by Dillon S. Myer, Director, War Relocation Authority, before the subcommittee of the Military Affairs Committee of the U.S. Senate. Statement includes a memorandum of agreement between the War Department and the War Relocation Authority, as well as a list of incarceration camps with location and present population, and a chart listing distribution of Japanese American populations by age and sex. Statement headings include: General problems resulting from the evacuation, the nature of the evacuated population, evacuation from Hawaii, basic policies of center administration, housing, food and mess operations, education, medical care and hospitalization, employment, agriculture industry and public works, community welfare, community enterprises, community government and internal security, external security, basic policies on leave and outside employment, group work leave, temporary and indefinite leave, evacuee property, activities of the federal reserve bank, activities of the Farm Security Administration, responsibilities of the War Relocation Authority, organization, functions, organization of the War Relocation Authority, individual exclusion. Statement includes Exhibit I: Memorandum of understanding as to functions of military police units at the relocation centers and areas administered by the War Relocation Authority, and Exhibit II: Headquarters Western Defense Command and Fourth Army policies pertaining to use of military police at war relocation centers. Document number is 6-5778-[page number]-BU-COS-WP. Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide.
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text
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Official documents 25, 3, 3 pages, 11 x 8.5 inches application/pdf
World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority World War II--Administration--Western Defense Command World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation') World War II--Incarceration camps World War II--Incarceration camps--Work and jobs--Police World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers
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