California evacuees being removed to Assembly Centers

“Just the day before I left Honolulu,”

“the chief agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Hawaii
told me ‘You can

‘say without fear of contradiction that there
has not been a sing

le act of sabotage — either before December 7
during the day of the attack, or at any time since.’

writes Professor Clark,

°

“Chief Gabrielson of the Honolulu police, which works in close
collaboration with the army, told me the same thing. ‘If the

Japanese here had wanted to do darsage, December 7 offered them
a golden opportunity,’ he added.

“Where were the Japanese on that Sunday if they were not
out sabotaging?’ you ask the chief of police. ‘Hundreds of them
were actively defending the territory,’ he will tell you. ‘Members
of the Oahu Citizens’ Defense Committee, most of them Japanese,
rushed to their posts as volunteer truck drivers. They stripped
a hundred delivery trucks of their contents, inserted into them
frames prepared to hold four litters, and went tearing out to
Pearl Harbor to aid the wounded. Some of these Japanese got
there so promptly that their trucks were hit by flying shrapnel.
They proudly display these pieces of steel now as souvenirs.’

“When the call came over the radio for blood donors, again
the Japanese were among the first to respond, and by the hundreds.
They stood in line at Queen’s Hospital for hours, waiting to give
their blood to save the lives of American soldiers.”

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