Letter from Lincoln Kanai to George Corwin, May 5, 1942

`May 5, loae

Mr. George Corwin

"47 Madison Avenue

New Yor k City

Dear Mr. Corwin: , :

Thank you for your letter. We appreciate fully the kind of thig which

the YMCA can do in meeting the great human tasks that the world is in need of

at the present time.

I know that at the present time while the vast problems of evacuation is being

completed, it may be a little too hasty to suggest that the YMCA enter the

picture. However, from the standpoint of recognition nationally and inter -

nationally as anninterracial federation and the remarkable way that it has

a definite phace in the processes of rehabilitating some 110,000 people

as they are resettled, both in the large centers that are being established

at this time as well as individual family resettkements in the various parts

of the coutry.

Knowing full well that the constant need of education and growth of

mental readjustments that must ee made while these many people are assembled

in large centers oy the Aruy and because we have and period of three months

or tore in these centers, the very nature and type of organizational "

activity which has made the YMCA what it is will help to perhaps meet

much of the responsibilities of social and mental needs within the camps.

We have also tried from our angle help steer both the Wartine Civil Control

Administration and the War Relocation Adminis ration in pointing the way

to solve this tremendous task of resettlement and public relation. You will

appreciate the fact that the Army or the a ministraters alone will be in-

adequate to solve all the problems and its many implications, the tremen-

dous social responsibilities of human redationships, educational neers,

industrial and farn cooperatives will call for a collaboration and assistance

of every social asoney within the country.

Realizing that the forces that have broucht about this evacuation which

is partly the pressure sroups, the commercial interests, as well as the

yellow journals, who have as yet been free from many directions of bringing

about and developing a national unity, we trust that the kind of leadership

which the national YMG@ can Sive will come to the rescue in meeting the

problems by which the agents have benefited by the associate genius.

Thanking you for your thouczchts and yo r concern at this time, we hope

that these individuals of Japanese ancestry will provide the maior leader-

ship for future welfare, as weil as a pattern fox industrial anc farm

cooperative laving which will so definitely be needed for post-war re-

adjustments of government personnel to a normal civil life.

We appreciate yourletter.

Yours cordially,

Le Kanai