Letter from Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1945 November 12

Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 15

Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0015

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This letter discusses Secretary Ickes' discomfort with forced internment, the treatment of the Nisei, and willingness to support a bill before Congress. Secretary Ickes states in this letter that "We were confronted with the alternative of pushing many of the Japanese out or of maintaining them in what really were concentration camps for months or years to come."