Administrative Highlights of the WRA Program
Notes: A review of the Japanese internment bureaucracy with separate sections on budgeting; personnel management, including the employment of Japanese American residents of the camps; fiscal management, supply; mess operations, which observed that the internees would not eat Army rations and that the camps consumed 40% of the rice production of the US; records management; and transportation.
iv, 82 pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing). A very good copy in stapled wrappers, with abrading to the outer edge of the back cover and pages, not affecting any text. With the ownership signature of Philip W. Baker, who worked at the Heart Mountain relocation camp and, in 1943, chaired the Relocation Committee for the War Relocation Authority, which sought to find work and housing for internees outside of the camps. (See memo from D. S. Myer, "The reluctance of center residents to accept offers...", May 15, 1943).
Publication: Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1946.
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