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blacks so therefore they're not going be able to deal with the problem the way the Germans did but they certainly are going to intensify their cruelty.

Q:

Wouldn't that be somewhat analogous in the context of confinement with what happened in this country in World War II when the order was given to evacuate the Japanese on the west coast from their homelands and put them not in concentration camps, but restrict them to camp areas. But yet in Hawaii--

Clark:

They call them relocation camps.

Q:

Relocation camps. But yet in Hawaii, where there were so many Japanese, there was no relocation.

Clark:

That's right. Absolutely. That is a really dark stain on Mr. Roosevelt's administration.

Q:

Let me ask you this same question about South Africa but from a different angle. You know, of course, about this meeting of two or three dozen South African corporate executives with the leader of the outlawed African National Congress. They had to go to another country to have that meeting. Am I correct in interpreting your previous answer to the question placed a little differently, that you would not think that disinvestment, or divestment would undercut the corporate leaders in South Africa who have made what some might seem to think an astonishing move?





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