Chamberlin was defending his position I signing the Munich agreement in 1938. His goal or hope was to avoid a war and to retain peace.
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In <em>Korematsu v. United States </em>(1944), the Supreme Court upheld the military order excluding Japanese Americans from the West Coast on the basis that the action was considered 1. a matter of national security. It was believed that Japanese Americans might try to sabotage US military tactics against Japan despite the fact that many of those interned were second or third generation Japanese Americans with little to no ties to their ancestral country.
It would've been day by day of week by week and it would've been exciting what he experience that specific day. The book NIght written as it is not always as specific for certain days and events :)