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    "ocrText": "-2-\n9. A notification of the Japanese people that there is a new\npolicy and that they are respected persons and welcome in American of-\nfices and that when they enter an American office they enter it with\ndignity and equal rights with members of the Allied Nations. Now he\nis treated like a dog.\nI am a practicing attorney in Tokyo, Japan, and a member of the\nJapanese Bar. I arrived in Japan with the Fifth Amphibious Corps\nSeptember 21, 1945, as a Lieutenant in the Naval Reserve. I served as\nLieutenant Commander until the last of June, 1946, at which time I\nbecame a prosecutor of B-Class war criminals, where I remained until\nFebruary, 1949, when I became a foreign trader in Japan. Subsequently\nI was granted a license to practice law by SCAP and sometime later ad-\nmitted to the Japanese Bar. I maintain a law office in Japan under the\nname of Pendleton & Weltner, Room 84-35, 6th Floor, Saiwai Building\n(across from Radio Tokyo), Uchisaiwaicho Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan.\nI was graduated from the University of Chicago Law Shhool in 1927;\nadmitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Indiana; and the Supreme\nCourt of the United States. I am 47 years old.\nI came to pay a social visit to Theron Lamar Caudle, Assistant\nAttorney General, Tax Division, Department of Justice, with my brother,\nWinston Pendleton, who had charge of the Jackson Day Dinners in Florida.\nMr. Caudle was asking me about conditions in Japan and I told him and\nhe insisted that these facts should be made known to you. I told him\nI would do so only on the expressed condition that the information be\ntreated strictly confidential, because I do not want to have any conflict\nor friction with SCAP. I am a practicing attorney there. However, you\nhave my assurance that I will cooperate with any representative if any\nis deemed necessary to be sent to Japan to investigate the conditions\nwhich I have outlined.\nAlex Enclosing\nAlex Pendleton"
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