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...demand for indiscriminate expulsion of first and second generation Japanese in California did not come from the masses of the people. Even when Californians were still stunned by the sudden attack on Pearl Harbor, there was great sympathy for the Isei and Nisei [alien and citizen Japs] placed in this tragic position through no fault of their own. Most Californians were content to let the FBI weed out the undesirables...
...Moscow radio broadcast that Japanese property in the Soviet Union had been placed under an alien-property commissar-but the Kremlin promptly denied this...
This interpretation was received with cool silence in the Justice Department, which has been feuding quietly with Treasury over alien property. Justice's representative on the frozen funds committee is Leo Crowley; and the President has begged Crowley to take over the whole job (though he never got around to giving him an executive order). White-haired Bache lor Crowley is a busy man: he is not only Chairman of FDIC, but of huge Standard Gas & Electric, and a director or officer of eight or ten other firms. Nonetheless, he told the President he would be Alien Property Custodian...
From the sorry history of World War I's Alien Property Custodians, he is a brave man who would touch the job in this war with a ten-foot pole. Between 1917 and 1934 (when the office was incorporated into the Justice Department) there were six custodians. Three were accused in the courts and in Congress of shocking dishonesties; one (Thomas Woodnutt Miller, President Harding's friend) went to jail...
...Custodian an enormous dispenser of patronage, with real-money corporate jobs in his control, but he can sell the corporations, some of them very juicy. Plenty of businessmen have already besieged the Treasury with bids for seized or suspect stock. But last week Henry Morgenthau enunciated a new policy: alien properties are not for sale, will be retained and controlled by the Government. "If there's no honey, there will be no flies," said he sagely-adding that, after this war, the President could count these properties among his blue chips at the peace table...