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THE HEARST PAPERS
,_ Latest large-scale slandering of the West
Japanese-Americans comes through the papers unde:
control of William Randolph Hearst, who has been
jeader in many past sensationalistic newswriting, He
always furthered racial animosity as a part of his be=
lief in Americanism,
The credit for the current, world-wide conflict may
well be placed partly onhis shoulders while evacuation
has largely been due to the "spy=scare" tactios of his
PAaPEYS " 3
Hearst papers carried "a full-page editorial rebuke
ing Ickes for hiring Japanese-Americans `on his farm
and used the medium of the Pacific League to ask him
to return the nisei to the relocation centers `so that
they may be kept under close observation lest somo Jap-
anese treachery is revealed,
To read suspicion and to breed distrust "re tho
products of a warped mind. If past records aro to
serve as the basis for belief in the present, tho trust
in the dapanese-Americans' is better placed than upon
such shoulders as Williem Randolph' Hearst,
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