To Oppose Reparations to Interned Japanese-Americans Is to Miss the Point Entirely

Mr. John S. Williams and Mr. Roy C. Brown feel that the $20,000 redress payments made to the Americans of Japanese descent who were evacuated from the West Coast states were unjustified.

Mr. Williams and Mr. Brown do not seem to realize that these people were deprived of a cornerstone of our democracy--freedom. These people were not evacuated because of any disloyal act, but simply because of their ancestors.

All of us Americans of Japanese descent were just as outraged and indignant about the attack on Pearl Harbor as any other American. If Mr. Williams and Mr. Brown would read history, they would find that no Americans of Japanese descent were traitors in this country. On the other hand, there were German-American Bunds and known cases of espionage by Nazi sympathizers.

SHOICHI ASAHINA, Huntington Beach