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The '''''Report on Japanese on the West Coast of the United States''''', often called the '''Munson Report''', was a 29-page report written in 1940 by Curtis
By spring of 1941, it was increasingly apparent that Japan and the [[United States]] would become enveloped in conflict. [[World War II]] had broken out with the [[Second Sino-Japanese War|Japanese invasion of China]] in 1937 and the [[Invasion of Poland|German invasion of Poland]] in 1939. In July 1941, the United States, along with [[United Kingdom|Britain]] and the [[Dutch East Indies]], had imposed a total [[embargo]] on exports to Japan, including critical [[Petroleum|oil]] supplies. American [[military intelligence]] had broken [[top secret]] Japanese military codes, and a September 24, 1941 message indicated that Pearl Harbor was a possible target of a Japanese attack. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] immediately designated Munson as a special representative and gave him the task of gauging the loyalty of Japanese Americans, many of whom lived on military bases and important [[manufacturing]] facilities.<ref>Leslie T. Hatamiya, ''Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988'' (1994). Standford, p. 10.</ref>
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