Speech #790109474

The committee has recommended a reduction in the appropriation for the War Relocation Authority of $5.000.000. My amendment would bring about a reduction of $2.000.000 instead of $5.000 000. The $2.000.000 is the amount of saving which at the very outside the Administrator of the War Relocation Authority estimated could be made if all the Japanese now held at Tule Lake who are subject to deportation to Japan becaust- they did not profess loyalty to the United States could be promptly sent out of the country and back to Japan. as they will be sent. The purpose of my amendment is briefly this: The job of this agency at the - resent time is the job of closing out the relocation centers by the process of moving the JapaneseAmericans who have been held there out of the relocation centers and into some place where they are going to go to live. I have heard from sone of the people in various parts of the country. notably in my own State. who have been trying to do a job of helping meet the problem that is created when a number of the JapaneseAmericans come back into a community. to the effect that they are doing everything they can to meet that problem. but if the flow of these people back to those communities is increased over what it is at present serious conditions might result.