Korematsu v. United States · ¶32

March 2, 1942, General DeWitt promulgated Public Proclamation No. 1, which recites that the entire Pacific Coast is “particularly subject to attack, to attempted invasion... and, in connection therewith, is subject to espionage and acts of sabotage.” It states that “as a matter of military necessity” certain military areas and zones are established known as Military Areas Nos. 1 and 2. It adds that “Such persons or classes of persons as the situation may require” will, by subsequent orders, “be excluded from all of Military Area No. 1” and from certain zones in Military Area No. 2. Subsequent proclamations were made which, together with Proclamation No. 1, included in such areas and zones all of California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Utah, and the southern portion of Arizona. The orders required that if any person of Japanese, German or Italian ancestry residing in…

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U. S. Reports, volume 323, at 214 (Library of Congress) · transcription: Caselaw Access Project
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