were not invited over in the beginning-and the competition of their low standard of living with ours was such that they drove the white man away, and they are usurping the places that ought to be occupied by him. Therefore, they have been a constant source of irritation from the time they came, away back in 1906, up to the present time. I know this is a problem that has to be solved and the most successful solution I know is to spread them around throughout the United States, where they won't congregate in large units by themselves. Our laws in all of the Western States do not allow the marriage of whites and Japanese, and by that very fact we have forced them to live as little racial units. We respect their rights. Our Governor has publicly stated, and these Congressmen have, and I, too, that anybody who is a citizen should be accorded every single right, irrespective of what his color or racial precedents may be; but you cannot solve that by spreading this kind of propaganda over the country. Mr. LUDLOW. What has become of their property out there? Mr. JOHNSON. Some of it has been sold, and a good deal of it has been handled by trustees, guardians, and so forth. For instance, the Bank of America has handled many Japanese properties. Mr. CASE. At times there have been suggestions of some of them coming to my State, but our people have been a little suspicious of them and are a little inclined to question their patriotism. Mr. JOHNSON. Unfortunately, wherever they go they are not wanted. That is the tragic situation of this problem. I want to thank you very much for allowing me to appear. Mr. SHEPPARD. In your statement as it appears in the record at the moment, Congressman (Mr. Johnson), it is indicative, I think, of the fact there were certain custodies taken of the properties. However, the custody was taken through the solicitation of the Japanese themselves; in other cases trustees were selected by themselves as such, with the exception of where the Government took over their property to safeguard it. Is not that true? Mr. JOHNSON. That is correct. They chose the trust companies, banks, lawyers, and then I understand W. R. A. did have a division of leasing in their organization to help them facilitate the handling of their property. Mr. SHEPPARD. But one thing is a fact, that insofar as their property is concerned, their property has been preserved in accordance with law, both international and local? Mr. JOHNSON. Local, at least; I do not know about international. It has been handled thoroughly in a legal manner, in accordance with the laws of California and whatever State they were in. Mr. SHEPPARD. Thank you. Garrison, Lloyd K. Gillette, Hon. Guy M. Gordon, Lincoln. Hamblet, Philip.. Harding, Lt. Col. William Barclay. Hardwicke, R. E.. Heroy, W. B. Herrick, John.... Hershey, Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hines, Gen. Frank T.. Hisle, Wayne Holland, Kenneth. Holmes, P. W. Howse, Col. A. E. Joffe, B. M. Johnson, Col. J. M. Johnson, George R Johnson, Hon. J. Leroy Johnson, Normal L Kheel, Theodore W. Kirsch, William U. Klagsbrunn, Hans- Klauber, Edward Knight, Commodore Telfair. Krug, J. A Kuhn, Ferdinand. Lamb, Bernard.... Land, Vice Admiral Emory S. Levy, A. H........ Levy, Lawrence H. Little, W. R.. Lynch, George H. McCandless, James_ McClure, James N. W. McGill, K. H.. McKeever, R. L. McNamara, Francis J. McNamara, J. B.. McWilliams, J. R Macauley, Capt. Edward. Maslow, Will Maverick, Hon. Maury. May, Parker. Meeker, David.. Mitchell, Col. Joseph B. Moore, William H. Moreland, Dr. E. L.. Muir, Arthur J. Myer, Dillon S. Myron, Paul V Newman, W. H Oglivie, John W. G. Page, Howard W. |