A HARASSED MINORITY

...McWilliams ably and with a mass of documented detail tells the origins, largely economic, of prejudice against the Japanese in America and the part played by such hate-mongers as the Hearst press in fanning intolerance to the point of hysteria...

...adoption of a new Federal civil-rights statute in the form of a Fair Racial Practices Act...

...the removal of every vestige of racism from our immigration and naturalization codes, and the creation of a Federal agency expressly authorized to deal with the problem, making the management of race relations a function of the Federal Government...

...This dispatch underscores with dreadful irony the stupidity and viciousness inherent in the West Coast campaign of hatred against Japanese residents which in 1942 culminated in the evacuation of about 100,000 men, women, and children (two-thirds of them American citizens) to inland centers...

...Reviewed by Ernest L. Meyer RECENTLY an Associated Press correspondent cabled this dispatch from the U. S. Army Headquarters in fhe Pacific: "Frank T. Hachiya, 25, a Japanese-American, died while performing a dangerous volunteer mission...

...Hachiya was one of 16 Japanese-American soldiers whose names have been stricken from the county memorial roll by the Hood River, Oreg., American Legion Post...

...Hachiya, wounded on Leyte after volunteering to cross a valley under Japanese fire to scout an enemy position, died after most of the men in his regiment offered to give him blood transfusions...

...In Prejudice, Mr...

...McWilliams offers these suggestions as an approach to a decent deal: a declaration by Congress that it is public policy of the United States that there shall be no discrimination based on race, color, creed, or national origin...

...It is a grim story, but one desperately in need of telling if ever we are to solve with fairness and wisdom the problem of a harassed minority...