FRANCIS BIDDLE

There are in the United States many persons of Japanese extraction whose loyalty to the country, even in the present emergency is unquestioned. It would therefore be a serious mistake to take any action against these people.

I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps.

The genuine desire to prevent acts of sabotage or of espionage, a highly necessary concern in the face of danger, takes the form of attempts to control and punish the spread of ideas whose radical flavor is believed to cause the acts.

The Solicitor General is responsible neither to the man who appointed him [the President] nor to his immediate superior [the Attorney General.] The Solicitor General has no master to serve except his country.

The constitution has never greatly bothered any wartime President.

I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps.

The constitution has never greatly bothered any wartime President.

The genuine desire to prevent acts of sabotage or of espionage, a highly necessary concern in the face of danger, takes the form of attempts to control and punish the spread of ideas whose radical flavor is believed to cause the acts.

The Solicitor General is responsible neither to the man who appointed him [the President] nor to his immediate superior [the Attorney General.] The Solicitor General has no master to serve except his country.

There are in the United States many persons of Japanese extraction whose loyalty to the country, even in the present emergency is unquestioned. It would therefore be a serious mistake to take any action against these people.