The result is “Such Splendid Prisons: Diplomatic Detainment in America During World War II” (Potomac Books). “We treated the Axis diplomats very well, and we hoped in return our diplomats would be treated very well.”As it happened, they weren’t. U.S. diplomats held in Germany and Japan experienced deprivation — they were in war zones, after all — but this wouldn’t be apparent until the two sides swapped their diplomats in the summer of 1942 in carefully-choreographed exchanges. On the afternoon of Dec. 7, Japanese and German diplomats busily burned documents in their Washington embassies. AD“The diplomats weren’t allowed to go very far,” said Solomon, who interviewed Cornett, now 93, for his book.

Source: Washington Post March 11, 2020 19:18 UTC