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Phila. File {som * "I handed to Sta the roughest sort of suggested press ‘release. I am anxious that some announcement be made early this week so that the people on the Coast who are concerned about this problem will not be completely discouraged. ; Sincerely yours, - | (Signed) -eamianiagiele Sai -has sent me a copy of nis letter of Lay Sth to you, regarding the work- ing out of a progrem of university education for Japanese-American citi- sens who are now being evacuated from the Facific Coast. He has suprested _ that you and your committee would find it helpful to receive from me an expression of approval of a properly conceived and carefully executed _program in this respect. Lo, “Accordingly, I take pleasure in advising you that I am in complete sympathy with the suggestions made by SaNNCenaaNn in his letter to you of kay 5th. Anything that can legitimately be done to compensate loyal citizens of Japanese ancestry for the dislocation to which they have been subjected, by reason of military necessity, has our full epproval. In particular, the suggestion for the establishment of a committee of distinguished educators to work out a program of uni- versity education in other parts of the country for Japanese-American citizens evacuated from the Pacific Coast meets with my hearty approval. “I am happy to know that this committee is being formed under your sponsorship and that of the American Friends Service Committee. ¢ Sincerely yours, (Signed) evacuation of Japanese Americans on the Pacific Coast, Tijjasiesele that the Committee objects to the discrimination directed against Americen eitizens of Japanese descent in the evacuation from the war zone areas on . «a