INTERNMENT
STILL A REALITY IN U.S.
Hero of
Great War Not Excluded
WASHINGTON,
D.C.—Acting attorney general Charles Fahy announced on September 12 the status
of Italian-American internees is being reviewed since the armistice with Italy
was signed. Italian-, German-, and Japanese-Americans have been interned, starting
in 1942. Japanese-Americans have been relocated to internment camps in the
greatest number—tens of thousands who lived on the West Coast as well as some
from other areas. Tokie Slocomb was one of those Japanese-Americans, and a
veteran who served in France during World War I. Slocomb stood next to the
president after the war as the law granting citizenship to the Japanese-Americans
who fought in the Great War was signed. The president gave Slocomb the pen he
used to sign the bill into law, but this honor did not exclude him from
internment.
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