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War Department Urges Argument That Japanese-Americans Were Confined for Their Own Good

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Memo from Justice Department Lawyer  John Burling Argues (Sarcastically) Japanese-Americans Were Confined for Their Own Good (April 21, 1944)

(Note that Justice Felix Frankfurter was copied on the memo)

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