“Time would ease the rupture which now
separated him from the young Japanese who were Americans because they had
fought for America and believed in it. And time would destroy the old Japanese
who, living in America and being denied a place as citizens, nevertheless had
become inextricably a part of the country which by its vastness and goodness
and fairness and plenitude drew them into its fold, or else they would not have
understood why it was that their sons, who looked as Japanese as they
themselves, were not Japanese at all but Americans of the country America.”