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never occurred to Besig— or anybody else much— that there might be Japanese
women living with Filipino husbands in this combat zone. Well, Ignacio knows
of four Filipino-Japanese familes right here— These women, according to
Ignacio, are no longer Japanese in the sight of Hirohito or any sub- Happily, Besig was not asked to bring a habeas corpus action on behalf of these women who are not Japanese and not quite American. For my men have it on high authority that the question whether evacuees are entitled to habeas corpus is one about which everybody will be more cheerful if it doesn’t come up. What the Filipino Community of San Francisco, Inc., is asking is a small but separate location for Japanese wives of Filipino men. That’s something Besig can suggest to authorities without getting his head in a sling— clear down to the heels. The San Francisco News April 18, 1942 Go to the Japanese Internment page. |