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Fou RILDASE: SATVADAY, OCTCBIOR BU, 1943 DETARTI GT C AFTERNOON PE ¢ Attorney General Francis Diddle announced today that Since | Sa - Pearl Harbor it has been necessary for the Federal Bureau of sovestibecien” toy to take into custody on nly 14,738 aliens of enemy nationality as persons. “’ a. “leo re ae potentially dangerous to the security of the United States, . of this number 3,7 n are now “interned, 4,113 have been cared MA and 1,444 released outright after hearings before local Alien Enemy Hearing Boards, The remainder were released after preliminary hearings before United States Attorneys. tir, Biddle revealed that the 3,771 aliens interned represent less than one-half of one percent of the more than 933,000 alien enemies in the United States, He explained that the comprehensive files main- tained by the FBI make it possible to determine the beliefs and sympathies of all aliens of enemy nationality, and that it is the policy of the Department of Justice to take into custody for further investigation and hearings all whose loyalty to the United States is in doubt. However, only those regarded as danperous to the internal security of the country are interned. . Among those interned are 1,353 Germans, 1 Italians, 1,798 Japanese, 6 Hungarians and 2 Rumanians. . In all inatances, aliens are taken before Hearing Boards who make recomendations to the Attorney General: in each case, lie then determines whether the alien enemy is to be interned, paroled or released, Long before the outbreak of war, the Attorney General said, the FRI beran investigating persons suspected of pro-Axis synpatiies, On re noon © | ye Ph