The Washington Post, November 18th, 1996
Regarding the letter from Werner Gruhl {"Smithsonian Amnesia," Nov. 11} concerning the Smithsonian's exhibit on the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians published in 1982 found that the broad historical causes of the internment were "race prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership." Declassified FBI and naval intelligence reports written shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor stated that Japanese Americans did not seem to be any more disloyal than other ethnic groups from count...
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