Henry McLemore

I am for the immediate removal of every Japanese on the West Coast to a point deep in the interior . . . Sure, this would work an unjustified hardship on 80 or 90 percent of the California Japanese. But the remaining 10 or 20 percent have it in their power to do damage - great damage - to the American people. They are a serious menace, and you can't tell me that an individual's rights have any business being placed above a nation's safety.

"If making 1 million Japanese uncomfortable would prevent one scheming Japanese from costing the life of an American boy, then let the 1 million innocents suffer . . . Personally, I hate the Japanese. And that goes for all of them. Let's quit worrying about the enemy's feelings and start doing it.