Freeman Calls Japan Society 'Fifth Column'

Freeman Calls Japan Society 'Fifth Column'

Freeman, Miller Japan Society of Seattle Evacuation Troy, Smith Jensen, Rev. Harold V Tolan Committee Tolan, John H. Curtis, Carl T. Bender, George H. Fifth column Coon, Hildur Aller, Curtis Warring, Bernard G. Schmoe, Floyd W. American Friends Service Committee Farquharson, Sen. Mary Gill, Rev. Thomas Carroll, John E. Bridges, Robert Valley Protective Association Steiner, Prof. J.F. Vedova, P.O.D. Boyd, Mrs. Esther S. McDonald, Dan Lysons, Fred H.

A number of people trestified before the Tolan Committee giving their views for and against the evacuation of Japanese from the West Coast. Miller Freeman, a local publisher, clained the Japan Society of Seattle was a fifth column organization and that its members were being played for suckers.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

3/3/1942

INT 5 _ F74

1900.566