Liveblogging World War II: February 12, 1942
The War Relocation Authority and The Incarceration of Japanese-Americans During World War II: 1942:
Columnist Walter Lippmann publishes a nationally syndicated column in which he says:
The Pacific Coast is in imminent danger of a combined attack from within and from without. The Japanese navy has been reconnoitering the coast more or less continuously. The Pacific Coast is officially a combat zone; some part of it may at any moment be a battlefield. Nobody's constitutional rights include the right to reside and do business on a battlefield. And nobody ought to be on a battlefield who has no good reason for being there.
