Video: 'Japanese Internment during WW II' (Dec. 18, 1944 at 8:18)

(Monday, December 18, 1944; during the Internment of Japanese Americans of World War II) — The constitutionality of the wartime regulations under which American citizens of Japanese ancestry were evacuated from Pacific Coast areas in 1942 was upheld by a vote of 6 to 3 in the Supreme Court today, but in another decision the court ruled unanimously that Japanese-Americans of unquestioned loyalty to the United States could not be detained in war relocation centers.

Both rulings came a day after the U.S. Department of War said it was lifting the internment policy.