BUILDING NEW COMMUNITIES DURING WAR TIME.

Three months after the attack at Pearl Harbor, the President of the United States, as a war measure, authorized the Secretary of War, or Commanding Generals of Defense Commands designated by the Secretary, to prescribe military areas in the United States from which any or all persons might be excluded. The civilian exclusion orders of the Western Defense Command which followed almost immediately required all people of Japanese ancestry, whether citizen or alien, to be evacuated from the state of California, most of Washington and Oregon, and parts of Arizona. This paper attempts in all too hasty way to point out one of those neglected areas that in the opinion of the writer, now an administrator, seriously affect the validity and usefulness of much social science research in the community field. In conclusion, the two fatal weaknesses to stability and continuity of the relocation center community are pointed out, namely, the absence of an economic base, and dependence upon the vagaries of bureaucracy and political maneuvers.