Transcription: Retaliation against Japanese Americans was swift and severe. California banks refused to cash their checks. Milkmen refused to deliver their milk. Insurance companies canceled their policies. The state of California revoked their licenses to practice law or medicine. Gas stations refused to fill their tanks. And the shrill, insistent call to evacuate them from the coastal areas was heard all the way to the capital. Heard him up, pack him off, a San Francisco newspaper columnist wrote, let him be pinched, hurt, hungry and dead up against it. The White House took notice. Pressure groups were scr ...
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