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Show " I'ol- $2. Number 13 "V vL - . f' .'" ' f" I -.. i-- f -v j,v .""v i if ; .;- , ' t 4 1" A photograph exhibit dealing with the Japanese evacuation and internment will be on display at the Museum of Fine Arts until Aug. 10. The photo graphs are meant to create a condemning study of action taken against the Japanese in World War II. 'Order 9066' Evacuations on display executive Order 9066," a photographic exhibit dealing with the Japanese evacuation and internment, in-ternment, will run until Aug. 10 in the Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition, produced by the California Historical Society, is sponsored by the newly-formed newly-formed Asian Students Union. It was created and designed by Maisie and Richard Conrat, who selected the photographs from some 25,000 to create a condemning study of actions taken against Japanese-Americans on the West Coast during World War II. More than 110,000 Japanese were affected by Executive Order 9066, which allowed the army to remove civilians from any area they deemed neccessary. Thousands of Japanese and Americans of Japanese descent on the West Coast even some who were unaware of their Japanese ancestry-were ancestry-were ordered to leave their homes and businesses. More than two-thirds of the evacuees were native-born Americans and many had sons or husbands hus-bands serving in the Armed Forces. Their placement place-ment in 10 internment camps scattered throughout the west, was intended as a temporary measure, but most of the camps operated until a yeur after the end of the war. Besides depicting the evacuation orders, evacuees evacu-ees and internment camps, the exhibit includes many examples of good old American patriotism gone overboard: one photograph shows an Arizona barbershop with a sign on the door reading, "Jups Keep Out You Rats." Also included in the exhibit are a number of newspaper items and well-worded comments covering all sides of the evacuation issue. is-sue. One, an excerpt from the Creed of the Japanese-American Japanese-American Citizens League, is particularly moving: "... I am firm in my belief that American sportsmanship sports-manship and the attitude of fair play will judge citizenship and patriotism on the basis of action and achievement and not on the basis of physical characteristics ..." "Patriotism should mean dedication to making one's country a wiser and more just nation," declare the exhibition's creators, in explaining its purpose. |