Pacific Coast Faces Attack, Prober Says

Pacific Coast Faces Attack, Prober Says

Tolan, John H. West Coast Warren, Earl F.B.I. Aliens, enemy Martial law De Witt, Lt. Gen John L.

Politicians warned of dangers from Japan including a possible attack on the West Coast in the wake of a Congressional hearing that began in San Francisco. Congressman Tolan of Oakland made the statement, and Earl Warren, attorney general of California, told the congressional committee that Japanese Americans were a menace because many of them had been educated in Japan and thus were indoctrinated in Japanese ways.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

2/21/1942

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