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President Roosevelt gave the Army control over certain movements of U.S. citizens and resident aliens alike, authorized Secretary of War Stimson to throw anyone out of a "military area" whenever he saw fit. The order was not martial law-not quite. But from California, tense over its 98,000 alien-and-American-born Japs, came an audible sigh of relief. Washington had apparently waked up at last to the West Coast...
Ogden Hammond's daughter, Mary, was ordered interned as an enemy alien. Daughter of the wealthy ex-U.S. Ambassador to Spain, American-born Mary is married to Italian Count Guerino Roberti, onetime attache at the Italian Embassy in Washington. The Count and Countess will be taken to Hot Springs...
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingfiürst's 27-year-old son, Frangois-Joseph-Rudolf-Hans, professional artist's model, was taken to Ellis Island for a hearing before the Enemy Alien Board...
...custody of alien property was a $500,000,000 responsibility in World War I. This time it is a $7,000,000,000 responsibility. Nobody has yet been ap pointed to handle it. But last week Henry Morgenthau made a long reach...
...remaining officers professed to be de lighted. "It's a pleasure to be working for Uncle Sam," cried Vice President Hugh S. Williamson. Three days later, Uncle Sam Morgenthau told his press conference that, as he interpreted the executive order, there would be no single Alien Property Custodian in this war. But the Treasury would act as custodian, via the interdepartmental (Treasury, Justice, State) committee that has been handling frozen funds. His alien property powers, insisted Henry the Morgue, were "not given to me as temporary...