Internment of Japanese-Americans in early 1942...
Item # 726355
January 08, 1942
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 8, 1942
* Internment of Axis-Americans beginning
* World War II - WWII - AG Francis Biddle
The top of page 19 has a one column heading: "NEW ALIEN LISTING PLANNED BU BIDDLE" with subheads. (see images)
Complete with all 44 pages, rag edition in very nice condition.
background: The transition in Robert F. Whitney’s reporting between January and May of 1942 serves as a bone-chilling case study in the fragility of civil liberties, revealing how quickly a "measured" democratic society can pivot to state-sponsored xenophobia. In January, Whitney’s journalism presented a surgical, law-abiding government detaining only a few thousand suspects; yet, a mere 120 days later, his prose evolved into a clinical justification for the wholesale disappearance of 110,000 souls. This shift highlights a terrifying historical "vanishing point" where the media stopped being a watchdog and started acting as the PR wing for military overreach. For any collector or historian, these documents are not just ink on newsprint—they are the smoking gun of a manufactured narrative, proof of how easily the press can sanitize the stripping of constitutional rights under the guise of "logistical necessity."
* Internment of Axis-Americans beginning
* World War II - WWII - AG Francis Biddle
The top of page 19 has a one column heading: "NEW ALIEN LISTING PLANNED BU BIDDLE" with subheads. (see images)
Complete with all 44 pages, rag edition in very nice condition.
background: The transition in Robert F. Whitney’s reporting between January and May of 1942 serves as a bone-chilling case study in the fragility of civil liberties, revealing how quickly a "measured" democratic society can pivot to state-sponsored xenophobia. In January, Whitney’s journalism presented a surgical, law-abiding government detaining only a few thousand suspects; yet, a mere 120 days later, his prose evolved into a clinical justification for the wholesale disappearance of 110,000 souls. This shift highlights a terrifying historical "vanishing point" where the media stopped being a watchdog and started acting as the PR wing for military overreach. For any collector or historian, these documents are not just ink on newsprint—they are the smoking gun of a manufactured narrative, proof of how easily the press can sanitize the stripping of constitutional rights under the guise of "logistical necessity."
Category: World War II
