January 5, 1944

San Mateo, California

japanese internment camps, World War II, Japanese

In a letter to the editor of the Los Altos News, Samuel B. Herbert argued against the rhetoric of a Mr. Spenser stating that Japanese people, even citizens, should be exiled from the country and deported back to Japan following the end of the war. Herbert made several valid points for why he disagreed with Mr. Spenser’s statements. Firstly, there were many American born Japanese who were fighting...