Bu.. I do think that if there Is to be a legacy written of Mike. no one is better able than he to do so. In his book. "They Call Me Moses Masaoka." Mike writes: I believe my most important achievement * ** was persuading Congress to eliminate racial discrimination from immigration and naturalization laws. thereby making the assertion that Asians were entitled to share the American dream. My most difficult decision was to urge cooperation with the Federal Government in the suspension of our rights as Americans as our patriotic contribution to the [Second World War] effort. We were told that this was a matter of military necessity and we had no way of disputing that contention. nor could we risk the possibility of bloodshed if we stood on our rights and resisted military orders * * *.
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